Red or Blue -- ”Which Are You? - Take the Slate quiz.
Red and blue are states of mind, not actual states. Red and blue aren't absolute predictors of political leanings, either. There are plenty of blue cities in red states, red enclaves in blue states, red-leaning governors of blue states, people who vote Republican but are of a blue state of mind, and so on. It's not as simple as liberal vs. conservative, elite vs. populist, urban vs. rural, religious vs. nonreligious, educated vs. uneducated, rich vs. poor -- if it were, the terms "red" and "blue" wouldn't have taken off as the best shorthand for a divided America.
I was suprised. The questions are cultural, not political, and I fancy myself Red politically tending blue culturally.
But this test has exposed me. Guess I'll have me a PBR and break out the Lee Greenwood Box Set.
Hat-tip Virginia Postrel. Her book, "The Substance of Style," is outstanding. Everybody should read it especially certain engineers who frequent this site...
Posted by jk at July 15, 2004 09:59 AMI'm "lookin a little red".
I'll take a PBR after mowing the lawn.
That's lawn mowin' beer!
It's a rather strange test, IMHO. One gets credit, as it were, for wrong answers. For example, I would have been more red if I had not known that LIRR stands for Long Island Rail Road. The presumption is obviously that only a city boy, and one from NYC at that, would know the answer. The fact is that when that goblin Colin Ferguson shot a bunch of people on a train (conveniently before a vote on more gun control) it was on the LIRR. Gun rights people know this. Guns rights people are sooooo not blue area, as Dagny's sister would say.
Posted by: Macho Duck at July 16, 2004 09:01 PMVery odd test indeed. I guessed LIRR as it happens, and guessed Daloe Earnhart.
Posted by: jk at July 17, 2004 01:35 PM