What's my line quiz

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

new political typology in the usa ...what are you? take the quiz and find out ....

[greenilex]

Solid Liberal - what tosh - I'm a rabid leftie, always have been...

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

nah i didn't like being a post modern either ... no education these yanks

[french frank]

Solid Liberal - what tosh - I'm a rabid leftie, always have been...

Rabid leftie is the same as 'Solid Liberal' in the USA. I'm Solid Liberal 'along with 14% of the public'

The analysis:



"What They Believe

Strongly pro-[Obama] government and very liberal on a broad range of issues
Very supportive of regulation, environmental protection and government assistance to the poor
One of the most secular groups; 59% say that religion is not that important to them
Supportive of the country's growing racial and ethnic diversity
Two-thirds disagree with the Tea Party

Who They Are

Highly politically engaged
75% are Democrats
Concentrated in the Northeast and West
57% are female
Best educated of the groups: 49% hold at least a bachelor's degree and 27% have post-graduate experience
A third regularly listen to NPR, about two-in-ten regularly watch The Daily Show and read The New York Times
59% have a passport [that's probably very high for the US]
42% regularly buy organic foods
21% are first or second generation Americans"

The only thing which surprised me was '57% are female' whereas I've always thought of women as being politically more conservative (I think I'm allowed to say that, even if it is just me being superior ).

[Chris Newman]

Hey ho! Solid Liberal again. I was surprised, like french frank, at the suggestion that more women were liberal. I guess that is a sexist assumption on my part.

[Eudaimonia]

Hm, let's see: Northeastern postgraduate-degree-wielding passport-holding organic-buying NYTimes-reading female Democrat "Solid Liberal" here.

Rabid leftie is the same as 'Solid Liberal' in the USA.

It might be for the purposes of this quiz, but I can assure you anyone would be able to tell the real progressives and radicals from the "solid liberals" without any difficulty at all. Most "rabid lefties" don't identify strongly with the word, as it seems to connote people who are more "mainstream" than activist-oriented; more easygoing than alienated. Oh, and significantly more affluent.

I'm not sure why they didn't break it down into more categories at the extremes; there's a lot of room at both margins. Perhaps they didn't want to contribute to being "divisive" (as if labels in a study would change anything...)

You might want to remember "liberal" has quite a different connotation in the States than it does in the UK; there's a whole constellation of assumptions going into the word you just don't have over there, and vice versa.

[french frank]

You might want to remember "liberal" has quite a different connotation in the States than it does in the UK; there's a whole constellation of assumptions going into the word you just don't have over there, and vice versa.

Indeed. But we were answering specific questions on attitudes, and their idea of 'solid liberal' equates to only 14% of the US population whereas I would have thought of myself as being somewhat to the left of a Blairite/Brownite Labour party but typically in a group representing, say, 40%, at least, of the UK population on most of those issues.

[Serial_Apologist]

The problem is the British being so hard to read when it comes to political issues of this or any other kind. Any Any Questions panellist slating right-wing domination of the tabloid press always wins lively consensual applause, but, asked for a show of hands, most audience members admit to being unwilling to give up buying the biggest seller, which is the Sun. "What I like about the British, or more specifically the English, whom I know better from being over here a few times, is their vulnerability" a Canadian friend has told me often; "it's there in their eyes, that vulnerable look". "Read that as shiftiness" I reply, having all my life been constantly amazed at views people I would have thought I had the measure of come up with e.g. homophobia, antisemitism. Maybe there was a time when we British genuinely spoke our minds, and I don't just mean the working class or more specifically Yorkshire people, but not in my 65 years. Even our oft-praised politeness as a nation, often a cover for insincerity imv, is now fast disappearing as the life/work balance tilts ever more to the latter - Americans used to be perceived as brash in this country, but now come across as much politer on the whole than us. Maybe all this accounts for our exit polls being so often at variance with actual election results.

S-A

[Mary Chambers]

Another 'Solid Liberal' here

[Tapiola]

Disaffected. 11%, apparently.



I knew that already...

[Don Basilio]

Another solid liberal posting. As always with these online quizzes, I wish I knew what the other options were that I didn't fit.

[Serial_Apologist]

A reluctant, unreconstructed Marxist in my case. Doesn't appear in those categories...

[Anna]

Originally I was a Disaffected, but then I did it again and ignored the question which asked which Political (American) Party I emphasised with and I suddenly was a Post-Modernist!

[Serial_Apologist]

Originally I was a Disaffected, but then I did it again and ignored the question which asked which Political (American) Party I emphasised with and I suddenly was a Post-Modernist!

Only if you emphasised, Anna, not if you empathised......

[Anna]

Only if you emphasised, Anna, not if you empathised......

Not only do I not know the difference between American political parties I cannot spell! But that not is a drawback when it comes to Post Modernist music is it?