I work in Louisiana. When I say work, I mean physically WORK everyday at a job, like most everyone else in Louisiana. At least in South Louisiana, work is almost exclusively based around physical activity for the oil industry. Because of the way that the statistics were calculated, i.e. (hours of sedentary activity)/(hours available for non-work activities), the outcome is skewed towards "lazy" if the activity required at work limits the amount of energy available for any activity.

To be fair, the sporting opportunities that are available (hunting and fishing) are less physically demanding than say, hiking in the rockies. There is simply less physical capacity required.

Additionally, the culture is more social and leans more towards regular alcohol consumption than anywhere else that I have lived and worked. This may also have a huge effect on LA's place at #1.

I lived in WV for two years and never got a good night's sleep. It was the nature of the work up there in the oilfield, and I'm certain that the other two major resource-based professions (coal mining and timber) are the same way. WV doesn't have very many manufacturing or service industry jobs, its hands-on blue collar work. Combine that with the poverty that greatly affects the diets and health of the non-laborers and the mindset of all residents, and you have a recipe for no one ever sleeping quite enough.

Still miss it, though; its a beautiful place.

That Maersk Well is a horizontal well. It is only 4000 or so feet below surface, but extends the rest of the way out horizontally. That well, while incredibly challenging to drill, is not the deepest hole, it is the longest.