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| Contributor | Homegrown Democrat |
| Last Edited | Homegrown Democrat Aug 15, 2012 10:55pm |
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| Category | Analysis |
| News Date | Thursday, August 16, 2012 04:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A map of American state stereotypes, generated by Google autocomplete.
In the months before a US Presidential election, the quality of political discourse hits new lows. Blue State/Red State tropes dominate the news cycle as the media gins up outrage over perceived injustices in the culture wars. It’s all about our differences. So I started wondering, how do Americans really think about “those people” in other states? What are the most common stereotypes? For each of the fifty states and DC, I asked Google: “Why is [State] so ” and let it autocomplete. It seemed like an ideal question to get at popular assumptions, since “Why is [State] so X?” presupposes that X is true. |
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