With the exception of number two Utah, all of the states in the top ten are states commonly identified as being part of the Bible Belt. (The top ten were: Mississippi, Utah, Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, South Carolina, Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, and Oklahoma.).
mutt. n. 1. an inept, ignorant, or stupid person.
Your mutt's tail is bushy, like a bottle brush. Your mutt's tail is slightly curved or straight (but not curled or curly!) and carried high (somewhere in the 90 degrees between just above horizontal, all the way to almost vertical).