It’s Slate’s Red/Blue Quiz! Tells you how “red state” or “blue state” you are- and I am, you guessed it, right in the middle. Even though I’ve lived in four blue states and no red ones, being from the Midwest gives me some “rural” cred, even if I am from the suburbs in a state that elected Paul Wellstone to the Senate twice.
It’s entertaining stuff, though the quiz conflates being liberal with being from New York and rich; it was quite obviously written by a New Yorker. All in all, it’s much of the same oversimplified cross-cultural stereotyping that’s made David Brooks a journalistic superstar.
Posted by Stephen Silver at July 16, 2004 01:31 AM