July 7, 2008
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American Portraits
What do we look like?
Electorally, like this.
Religiously, like this like this. (Click around on that one. It’s really a fine piece of work.)
Linguistically, like this. (It’s not red vs. blue America, folks. It’s pop vs. soda America. [Coke is another country.])
(Got the religion link from the just-relaunched Interactive Narratives. Aaand there goes the evening.)
Update: I pointed to the wrong version of the religion link! Click it again — it’s even crazier now.
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Observations:
1) The generic use of "coke" for all soft drinks is highly correlated with evangelical Christianity.
2) In New England and the Pacific states, you are 20% or more likely to be religiously unaffiliated.
3) Nebraska is 31% Catholic, higher than Louisiana, almost as high as Illinois, otherwise outpaced only by NY, NJ, Mass., Connecticut and Rhode Island.
4) New York and New Jersey are 6% Jewish, Maryland is 5%, Florida is 3%, while Colorado and New Mexico are 2%.
5) Fingers crossed: Obama wins Colorado and Virginia.