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« Reply #50 on: October 31, 2013, 01:22:15 pm »


From the Los Angeles Times....

States have colorful personalities — red, blue and Western green

By DAVID HORSEY | 5:00AM - Wednesday, October 29, 2013



AFTER A 13-year study involving more than 1 million Americans, a multinational team claims to have identified the dominant personalities in each of 48 states. Apparently, every one of us can now assess whether we belong in a state such as Pennsylvania, filled with “temperamental and uninhibited” people, Nebraska, heartland of “friendly and conventional” folks, or California, land of the “relaxed and creative.”

Obviously, each of these three personalities can be found anywhere in the country, but it is not a novel idea to suggest that social norms differ from region to region. The differences have always been obvious. No one is going to confuse North Dakota with New Jersey or Alabama with Oregon.

Looking at a map of the United States in Time magazine that illustrates the study’s findings is especially interesting, thanks to the colors chosen to designate the state “personalities.” Friendly and conventional states are colored in shades of red and orange, with a deep red indicating the strongest influence of that personality type. Blue marks states with a temperamental and uninhibited personality. On first glance, this red/blue divide seems to parallel the way the electoral votes have split in the last several presidential elections — Republican Southern and Midwestern states red, the Democratic Northeast blue.

But a closer examination reveals significant variations. The Great Lakes states that went blue for President Obama — Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois and Michigan — are, nevertheless, reddish by personality. They are redder — more friendly and conventional — than even South Carolina. Iowa joins Nebraska as the deepest red, yet Iowa also voted for the president.

Texas, meanwhile, comes up a light blue on the map. The home state of Ted Cruz and Rick Perry has more in common with the temperamental, uninhibited style of Massachusetts than with the Midwestern conventionality of Kansas. But, really, this is not such a surprise. Boastful, independent Texas has always been singular; a state that is so big it borders on Southern, Midwestern and Western states.

The most interesting aspect of the study is the third personality type identified: “relaxed and creative.” States dominated by this style are colored shades of green on the Time map. On the East Coast, only Virginia and North Carolina fall into this category. There is no green in the Midwest. In the West, though, green floods the map. California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico are, apparently, heavily populated by relaxed and creative people.

Politically, the green lumps together the dependably Democratic West Coast with Idaho and Utah, two staunchly Republican bastions. Apparently, the political leanings of relaxed and creative people in these green states are determined by proximity to the Pacific Ocean or altitude or, most likely, by whether they live in a city with millions of other people or in a place with more cows than cars.

The study reinforces the idea that Americans are, more than ever, clustering with people of like minds. But it also suggests that there are significant variations in those clusters that rise above politics. Los Angeles and Manhattan may vote the same way, but an Angeleno might still prefer to hang with a laid-back dude from Salt Lake City. Those New Yorkers are just too intense, man. Let them go argue with the Texans.


http://www.latimes.com/opinion/topoftheticket/la-na-tt-states-personalities-20131028,0,7202128.story
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