# Things that stereotypical red-staters and blue-staters would both enjoy **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 26, 2012, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-stereotypical-red-staters-and-blue-staters-would-both-enjoy/629505 "2012-07-26T23:07:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2012, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-stereotypical-red-staters-and-blue-staters-would-both-enjoy/629505/1 "2012-07-26T23:07:09Z")
We all know the stereotypes of red-staters (Gods, guns, NFL footall, NASCAR) and blue-staters (arugala, soy lattes, atheism). Let’s leave aside all the really negative ones (racists, traitors, etc.) and focus on just the cultural ones. So, what things are there that should appeal to both types? In particular, I’m looking for things that appeal to some of the stereotypical traits of each, as opposed to something like chocolate or sex, which appeal to everyone just because. One that occurs to me is **Mythbusters**. For your blue-staters, you’ve got enormous respect for the scientific method and rationality, plus it’s filmed in godless San Francisco. Plus explosions. For the red-staters, you’ve got guns, guns, fast cars, and Kari Byron firing guns in slow motion. Plus explosions. What else? ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2012, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-stereotypical-red-staters-and-blue-staters-would-both-enjoy/629505/2 "2012-07-26T23:41:43Z")
Camping in the National Parks? Both the environmentalists and the rugged outdoorsmen types would love it, I would guess. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2012, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-stereotypical-red-staters-and-blue-staters-would-both-enjoy/629505/3 "2012-07-26T23:45:02Z")
Beer. Granted, it’d be different types, but still. Beer. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-stereotypical-red-staters-and-blue-staters-would-both-enjoy/629505/4 "2012-07-27T00:48:56Z")
Fucking. I’ll bet most folks like that. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-stereotypical-red-staters-and-blue-staters-would-both-enjoy/629505/5 "2012-07-27T00:51:09Z")
Throwing Andy Dick into a tank of piranhas. ---
**Author:** ![Electric\_Warrior](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Electric\_Warrior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electric_Warrior)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-stereotypical-red-staters-and-blue-staters-would-both-enjoy/629505/6 "2012-07-27T00:52:42Z")
Bacon. The red-state stereotype is bacon dipped in chocolate on a stick at a state fair. The blue-state stereotype is bacon dipped in chocolate on a stick as part of a swanky restaurant tasting menu. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-stereotypical-red-staters-and-blue-staters-would-both-enjoy/629505/7 "2012-07-27T01:15:12Z")
Hating science. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-stereotypical-red-staters-and-blue-staters-would-both-enjoy/629505/8 "2012-07-27T01:42:52Z")
Cultural/Class warfare against the Other. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-stereotypical-red-staters-and-blue-staters-would-both-enjoy/629505/9 "2012-07-27T01:43:56Z")
> [@An\_Arky](#): > > Fucking. I’ll bet most folks like that. I’m not sure that’s legal in Red states. ---
**Author:** ![nogravity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9d8465/32.png) [@nogravity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nogravity)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-stereotypical-red-staters-and-blue-staters-would-both-enjoy/629505/10 "2012-07-27T01:51:48Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > I’m not sure that’s legal in Red states. Only if it’s family. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-stereotypical-red-staters-and-blue-staters-would-both-enjoy/629505/11 "2012-07-27T02:02:02Z")
I think both sides like NFL football. College football leans more red (excepting Michigan) I think all the major league sports are equally distributed. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-stereotypical-red-staters-and-blue-staters-would-both-enjoy/629505/12 "2012-07-27T02:05:12Z")
The beach. Red staters love Panama Beach, Blue staters know a wonderful hidden cove on Molokai. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-stereotypical-red-staters-and-blue-staters-would-both-enjoy/629505/13 "2012-07-27T02:36:28Z")
Ke$ha. She often dresses like white trash, drives a '78 Trans Am, enjoys Jack Daniel’s & cheap beer, and likes guys with scruffy beards. On the other hand, she’s into animal welfare, and she even officiated at a lesbian couple’s wedding a couple of months ago. ---
**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-stereotypical-red-staters-and-blue-staters-would-both-enjoy/629505/14 "2012-07-27T06:56:49Z")
Fireworks on July 4 and December 31. Just as popular in my blue city as they were in my small red town. ---
**Author:** ![Enkel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/df705f/32.png) [@Enkel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enkel)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-stereotypical-red-staters-and-blue-staters-would-both-enjoy/629505/15 "2012-07-27T07:42:12Z")
> [@suranyi](#): > > Camping in the National Parks? Both the environmentalists and the rugged outdoorsmen types would love it, I would guess. This is the first thing I thought of, especially now that guns are allowed. Imagine it, red-staters get target practice while blue-staters get the exercise of running for their lives. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-stereotypical-red-staters-and-blue-staters-would-both-enjoy/629505/16 "2012-07-27T14:57:55Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > I’m not sure that’s legal in Red states. Sure fucking is legal in red states, you just can’t talk about it. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-stereotypical-red-staters-and-blue-staters-would-both-enjoy/629505/17 "2012-07-27T15:34:20Z")
March Madness The Super Bowl ---
**Author:** ![Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barkis_is_Willin)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-stereotypical-red-staters-and-blue-staters-would-both-enjoy/629505/18 "2012-07-27T15:41:06Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > I think both sides like NFL football. College football leans more red (excepting Michigan) > > I think all the major league sports are equally distributed. I would suggest baseball is the most geographically universal sport within the US. The Northeast loves it, the South loves it, the Midwest loves it and the Pacific Coast loves it. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-stereotypical-red-staters-and-blue-staters-would-both-enjoy/629505/19 "2012-07-27T15:51:01Z")
Some really good, purist, regional BBQ. ---
**Author:** ![Mrs.Cake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2acd7d/32.png) [@Mrs.Cake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs.Cake)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-stereotypical-red-staters-and-blue-staters-would-both-enjoy/629505/20 "2012-07-27T17:56:16Z")
Plenty of zoos, museums, waterparks and amusement parks have broad appeal. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-stereotypical-red-staters-and-blue-staters-would-both-enjoy/629505.md?page=2)