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Red states love Pinterest, blue states love Macs

• 001sky 14y ago
  Red states love Pinterest, blue states love Macs -- Poor states <want> stuff, rich states <own> Stuff
• smackfu 14y ago
  Odd they singled out Pinterest in the headline since the percentage of any of the population on it is less than 1%. They could have just gone with "Red states love PCs and IE".
• glaugh 14y ago
  Super interesting. A few of those r-squareds are really high. It'd be interesting to see if there's any products for which state-level usage predicts voting for Obama but individual-level usage does the opposite (as is true with wealth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_fallacy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_fallacy) (Link to infographic is broken for me.)
• lk145 14y ago
  Cool analysis. I wonder to what extent the Mac/Obama correlation is explained by the fact that there aren't many Apple stores in Southern states and states with a lot of rural areas (which also happen to be Red states). If the opportunity to buy a Mac were equal I'm curious what how the correlation would change.