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In the spirit of Buzzfeed and Murray's Coming Apart quiz on how thick your bubble is, what're your best questions for assessing Red Tribe vs Blue Tribe American membership accurately. I've thought of a few, wandering what everyone would add. I'm aiming more for questions that get at the cultural attitudes and feelings that underly tribal membership, rather than political positions questions, which I feel are more vulnerable to lies. So far I've got for examples and formatting, I'm setting Red as Positive and Blue as Negative, the higher your score the Redder you are:
Do you drive a car with a V8 engine?
Yes (+2), No (0), Yes but it's not my daily driver (+4), I don't know (-8), I don't drive (-2)
How often do you go to church?
About as often as I'd like (+1), less often than I'd like (+4), more often than I'd like (-4)
What is the biggest reason you prefer to buy things made in America?
They are higher quality (+4), workers are paid a fair wage (+1), it's important that we make as much as possible at home (+2), I don't prefer things made in America (-2)
How large a raise would you need to be offered to do your job in a foreign country for two years, assuming that your standard of living would remain more or less the same while you were there?
50% or more (+4), 25-50% (+2), 0-25% (-2), I would do it for less than I'm making now (-4)
On a completely unrelated note, it still keeps surprising me how rich Americans are. People just drive around with V8 engines.
It's fairly related, actually.
Rednecks I know with no money still keep a V8 pickup or old project car around. It's the space, when you have a large property in a low-land-value area, to store it.
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