Matthew Yglesias, like me, has noticed how stupid this idea is of the Democratic Party is split between the (upscale) "wine track" and (downscale) "beer track":
the real question is when did beer become so downscale? Go to a retail corridor in a yuppified neighborhood in any town in America and you'll find a bar full of people drinking . . . beer. Go to a Whole Foods in a town where supermarkets are allowed to sell beer and you'll find . . . beer. Surely these are well-known facts. Meanwhile, in literal sense the American "beer track" seems to involve Obama-friendly plains states plus outliers like Nevada (casinos) and New Hampshire (people driving in from neighboring states to avoid taxes).Since I'm a college-educated member of the media who supports Obama, I'm pretty clearly in the wine track- but I very much prefer beer as well.
This analogy would seem to fall apart if you count Franzia drinkers as somehow more upscale than those who drink, say, Allagash.
Posted by: Jeremy at April 28, 2008 11:23 PMThe post is dumb...I've never heard such a thing discussed.
Posted by: A at April 29, 2008 02:21 PM