Amazon, U.S.A.
October 5th, 2008, by Andrew
Amazon.com has this cool website showing which sorts of political books people are buying in which states:
What struck me was the similarity of this to the “voting patterns of the rich” map from our book:
I wonder what data from Wal-Mart from Wal-Mart would look like. Maybe like one of the lower of the two maps? I’m not sure, though, since, even at Wal-Mart, buyers of political books are more politically active and thus maybe more like “rich people” in their red-blue divisions.
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1 Comment
Add your own1. Simone | October 6th, 2008 at 8:50 am
Researching the documentary: American Feud: A History of Conservatives and Liberals has made me really dislike this false dichotomy of “red states” and “blue states”. At least they mention the idea of “purple states” and list books that don’t fall in these 2 categories.
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