Yes I figured that would be the breakdown of the poll. For US participants the distance would be much less the further east you lived.
I do believe there is more of a homogenization of accents as we are getting more connected. Despite being from an area of the country with many regional accents, I have never been identified by my accent. Just the opposite, I’ve had people surprised to hear where I’m from. A neutral American accent seems to be getting more prevelant throughout the country.
Other: I suspect that Fetterman is making a point. I’d want to know what point before deciding what I think of his clothes, and I haven’t followed that issue so I don’t know his intentions in the matter.
I don’t have a good ear for accents; I only notice them when they’re drastically different from what I’m used to, and often can’t place them accurately even then. I suspect that somebody who does have a good ear for accents would hear a difference within less than two hours’ drive from here, at least if they went in the right direction; but I’m not sure. Didn’t vote.
I live in an area with tons of accents from people who are native speakers of non-English languages, but I assumed that’s not what the poller was asking.
I don’t mind Fetterman wearing casual most of the time but when he’s in the Capitol building he should dress like a senator. He’s not some Walmart parking lot security guy.
Years ago a friend introduced me to John Fetterman. He was a really cool guy, but I thought my friend was exaggerating about how one day he’d be big news.
I honestly don’t care how anyone dresses. It seems strange to me even thinking about it.
My career is pretty opposite of parents, both of whom went into high-paying STEM fields (engineering, computers, semiconductors, etc.)
I have a very un-STEM brain, and went into college administration - a pencil-pushing bureaucratic job - because my brain was functioning at only 50% capacity at all times and I needed a low-brain-taxing field. Paid little, but as long as I could keep a roof over my head, that’s all I need.
What I really wanted to do was fly airliners, but with my severe sleep issues, I’d be a hazard to all the passengers’ lives.
I took “diametrically opposed” to mean something like “my parent’s career was in the army; I work for a pacifist organization”.
I don’t see how being a physicist is “opposed” to being an artist. Didn’t Einstein play the violin?
Well, yes, but as far as I can tell, he wasn’t a professional-level violinist. Maybe “opposed” isn’t quite the right word, but being a professional scientist is a very different career from being a professional musician.
Yeah I can usually be pretty flexible with the wording of polls but this one got me. My career was very different than either of my parents but there was nothing in opposition of their jobs.
My Dad was a Federal Civil Servant- I was a Federal Civil servant. Totally different jobs, however.
Both my parents were teachers. Half my cousins are teachers. I are a teacher.
I answered “Other.”
I address my pastor as Pastor LastName and he addresses me by my first name. I picked that we are not on a first name basis in the poll.
My mom and I were coworkers at one point, so we definitely were in the same career.
My Mom was an engineer. My Dad barely finished high school and worked various jobs without really advancing in anything.
I was a writer. I became a social worker. I work in non-profit development as a grants manager, which I’ll allow is a somewhat technical job, but not like engineering. It’s a lot of writing and a lot of administration.
My mistake is, once again, coming up with what I thought was a pretty straightforward if not engaging topic (mainly to spark discussion here), but once we delve into 5+ levels of subjectives, semantics, and exceptions, the original purpose is lost. But OTOH I dislike frivolous polls or 100% black and white ones. YMMV.
Many things that people think are straightforward are quite complicated.
I find them more engaging that way, though. Mileage does vary.
ETA: My father was a physician. My mother was what these days is called a SAHM (she would have said “housewife”), and proud of it. I became a farmer. But neither of them were opposed to my doing that; they were in favor of it.
My father was too (doctor). I fainted at the sight of blood tho, became a biologist and teacher, so chose the close but no cigar choice.
My father primarily worked in marketing, in various forms; he was a salesman for the first part of his career (selling printing presses for newspapers), and later on, he was a professor with the University Extension, advising small businesses on marketing topics.
I, too, went into marketing (and I have the same bachelor’s degree – a BBA in Marketing – from the same school as my dad), though I wound up in market research and advertising strategy.
Sorry just can’t wrap my head around what would be diametrically opposed to my parent’s jobs. Dad was a draftsman/technical drawer. Mom became a librarian when we got older. I finally settled on being a police officer. Much different than my parents but diametrically opposed? I don’t know. I wasn’t close to being a librarian but we both worked for the same municipal government.
I think if you were a professional arsonist, and were paid to burn down an architectural library, you might get there.
I too am wondering what “diametrically opposed” careers are. Drug dealer and narc? Farmer and cowman? Superhero and supervillain? Black Spy and White Spy?