Red, Blue or Purple?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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First off, this test is poorly designed. There’s a reason everyone hates taking standardized tests in school, because it’s a pain in the ass to fill in the bubbles. Oh, yeah, there’s always the hours of studying stuff you will never remember after you take the test, too, but mostly it’s the bubbles.

My head hurts.

Second, this test is no indicator of political affiliation, but how you’ve been brought up. I don’t see how eating a brisket relates to your ideas on how the country should be run. And just because I live 2 miles away from a Wal-Mart Supercenter makes me more conservative than someone on the other side of town? And of course since my dad was a gun enthusiast when I was younger and let me fire off a few rounds every now and then makes me a card-carrying member of the NRA.
Shenanigans, I say.

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I’m in the middle, slightly towards the red side. Why?


Because I know Wal-Mart own Sam’s Club, that Dale Earnheart died, and I’ve been hunting and fired guns.

It’s really a test of what political and cultural knowledge you have, and whether you tend to know more conservative or liberal things.

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I also picked up a lot of red points because on the west coast, we don’t public transportation, we have cars. (which you think Slate would have known, being in the middle of this huge liberal area with horrific traffic jams).

Plus with multiple choice - you eliminate a few answers, and you can guess at what might be right.