[Andy'smom]

San Francisco is manlier than New York?

[Valentine_W]

No surprise that DC is #45. I spend most of my time between DC and CA, no wonder there’s a shortage of real men, lol.

[fieldmarshaldj]

We’re #1.

[ReignOfError]

Factors used to determine the manliest city rankings included the number of U.S.-made cars driven in the city, number of sports bars and BBQ restaurants, number of home improvement and hardware stores as well as manly salty snacks consumption.

I'm sure San Francisco has more than its share of home improvement stores. Sports bars, too. The "manly salted snacks" thing is, I think, best left uncommented upon.

[A_Former_Democrat]

Ah, look at those bastions of liberalism holding up the rear.

No pun intended.

[TypeZoNegative]

How in god’s name does salty food consumption, BBQ rib eating or driving foreign cars make you a “man”? A man is simply somebody that can take no $%#@ from anybody and have the balls to defend himself and his family.

And as a side note:

18. Minneapolis, Minn.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! They must have surveyed all of Saint Paul and made the common mistake of calling it all “Minneapolis”. I live in Minneapolis. Everybody here rides John Kerry bikes and drinks Appletinis.

[ClearCase_guy]

Got chainsaws? What about hammers and power drills? The men of New Orleans do. The "Big Easy" boasts more hardware stores per capita than any other U.S. city.

Huh. Can't imagine why.

[LiberConservative]

Ohio must be very manly with 3 of her cities in the top 10. But Toledo?!

[SonnyBubba]

Lots of stores like this.

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=24131337

[who knows what evil?]

Ooooo...poor showing from New England.

[x]

These are only big cities.

Cheyenne or Laramie, Odessa or Lubbock would probably beat all of them, but they weren't big enough to be considered.

Out on the plains guys are so manly they don't need or want "sports bars" or "hearty, pretzel and cracker snack made with real cheese."

[Tanniker Smith]

Nashville, eh? Home of Lightning 100...

[uglybiker]

Nashville #1

Certainly fooled me with the music that's been comin' out of there lately.

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

Booyah! Grew up in #8, and live near #2 (nevermind that I live outside of #587, Chapel Hill....)

Don't know if this criterion is definitive, however:

number of home improvement and hardware stores

Depends on the store. After all, everyone knows only a pansy shops at Home Depot.

[c21sac]

San Francisco is more manly than New York & Los Angeles. What kind of Men are they looking at?

[Savage Beast]

Baloney! The manliest city is the one I’m in at the time. If these people want to know manly, they need to get in touch with me.

[fella]

If Fort Worth/Tarrent county had of been separated from limp-wristed Dallas we would have been at top of the list. We just finished up our annual “Stock Show” where there's a major rodeo every night for weeks on end, the “Stockyards” has a number of country clubs where C&W bands play live every night, we have a NASCAR track and now have a NFL team in the county plus a downtown that is alive and safe (we actually arrest and prosecute criminals) after dark also we have a major brewery. Oh yeah, we seem to be having major gun shows almost every other week now.

[Impy]

“Factors used to determine the manliest city rankings included the number of U.S.-made cars driven in the city, number of sports bars and BBQ restaurants, number of home improvement and hardware stores as well as manly salty snacks consumption.”

Silly.

[NorthStarStateConservative]

I call B.S. on Minneapolis.

I live in the city, it’s not manly. There’s nothing but twig men on fixed gear bikes rolling about here. They must have included Saint Paul in the survey. It’s a very common mistake for people who aren’t familiar with the area and the concept of a multipolar metro area.