# Which SDMB minority are you in? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 31, 2006, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-sdmb-minority-are-you-in/366692 "2006-07-31T12:26:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-sdmb-minority-are-you-in/366692/61 "2006-07-31T16:37:39Z")
[QUOTE=Brynda] I fit on everything but age (over 40) and location (south of KY). Someone (not me :)) ought to count up which assumptions were violated the most. I agree with the person up thread who said there are lots of southern dopers. [/QUOTE] There are quite a few for sure, but nowhere near a majority, I don’t think. If we were to go by state instead of region, which state would have the most, do you think? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-sdmb-minority-are-you-in/366692/62 "2006-07-31T16:46:17Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] There are quite a few for sure, but nowhere near a majority, I don’t think. If we were to go by state instead of region, which state would have the most, do you think? [/QUOTE] Dig up the thread where we put our locations into a program on some site and it generated a Doper-Map. There were some interesting nodes on that one. Anybody remember that thread? ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-sdmb-minority-are-you-in/366692/63 "2006-07-31T17:16:22Z")
7 of 9. Too old and too Western. The Western thing I’m going to do something about when I retire, the age thing I’m stuck with. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-sdmb-minority-are-you-in/366692/64 "2006-07-31T17:26:23Z")
[QUOTE=Bambi Hassenpfeffer] Unlike most Dopers, I: [ol][li]am gay.[/li][li]live in Florida.[/li][li]speak 2 languages.[/li][li]listen almost exclusively to reggaetón, salsa, and merengue.[/li][li]work retail.[/li][/ol] So there are my minority groups. Is that more like what you wanted, **Zeldar** \*?\* \*BTW I love and always have loved your username. _I AM **ZEL-DAR** THE ALL-SEEING_ is how I always read it. [/QUOTE] A goodly number of minority areas, to be sure. Thanks for the kind words about the name. For some reason I always see Dan Aykroyd, but can’t remember why. Weren’t they from Remulac and wasn’t he something like Zeldar? ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-sdmb-minority-are-you-in/366692/65 "2006-07-31T19:35:21Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] I feel that jazz fans are in the minority here. [/QUOTE] I don’t know … Any discussion of the Jazzes always gathers a goodly number of posts. Tho some threads are simply arguments amongst a few hard heads. ---
**Author:** ![Pandora](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/eada6e/32.png) [@Pandora](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pandora)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-sdmb-minority-are-you-in/366692/66 "2006-07-31T19:43:05Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] Got me 9 for 9, and I’m female. My minority would be in the “Religion - Other” category you didn’t list. While a disporportionate number of Dopers are athiest, nearly all the rest are Christian or Jewish. There’s only a few of us admitted neopagans running around (I can think of about a dozen, and I pay attention to such things.) [/QUOTE] Just Like **WhyNot** , [Waves Hello! 🆒] I score a nine out of nine on this list, and following a non-traditional religion would be my minority… (although not the same non-big 6 religion that **WhyNot** follows) ---
**Author:** ![StuffLikeThatThere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc8723/32.png) [@StuffLikeThatThere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StuffLikeThatThere)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-sdmb-minority-are-you-in/366692/67 "2006-07-31T19:52:04Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] 1. White 2. Heterosexual 3. Over 20 but under 40 years old 4. Live East of the Mississippi in the USA 5. Live North of Kentucky and Virginia in the USA 6. Have at least some college education 7. Speak English as a first (if not only) language 8. Own a pet 9. Don’t smoke [/QUOTE] Wow. I’m 9 for 9. I feel so … average. However, if you use the “within 25 miles of a large city center” data point instead, I miss that one. I think I’m in a minority on the Dope in these ways: 1. I am quite conservative in my politics and religion, although as someone said before me, hopefully not in a knee-jerk way. 2. I don’t use swear words, or at least I try very very hard not to. Maybe I’m just spending too much time in the Pit, though, and Dopers overall aren’t as foul-mouthed as I think. 3. I’m terrified of Great Debates. Sometimes I post anyway because I never have been able to keep my mouth shut, but I’m always afraid someone is going to pop up and call me an idiot in there. I’m even more afraid that _they’ll be right_. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-sdmb-minority-are-you-in/366692/68 "2006-07-31T19:53:09Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] I know there have been various polls over the years to permit or entice Dopers to reveal some details about themselves, and many of them have been well received if not outright popular topics. I know I have participated in some of them. I could be very mistaken about the assumptions below, but based on my assessment of those past polls I’m concluding that the majority of SDMB participants (there’s no way to tell much about those who don’t post) fall into these demographics: 1. White 2. Heterosexual 3. Over 20 but under 40 years old 4. Live East of the Mississippi in the USA 5. Live North of Kentucky and Virginia in the USA 6. Have at least some college education 7. Speak English as a first (if not only) language 8. Own a pet 9. Don’t smoke [/QUOTE] I already sort of answered, but I guess it would help if I said which catergories are me. hehe. I am white, gay, over 20 under 40, I live west of the mississippi (SoCal),do have some college,speak english as my 1st language,do not own a pet and I do smoke. Other minority things about me, Non-mainstream religion and I was home-schooled through high school. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-sdmb-minority-are-you-in/366692/69 "2006-07-31T19:55:16Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] Add categories as you see fit, and respond as you care to. [/QUOTE] I guess I can add some more. I know there are only a few Indian Dopers. I’ve tried many times to get them out of the woodwork. Most of them are pretty quiet, it seems. Oh well. I also am atheist Hindu, which I don’t know if there are any others on the boards…but I know others exist IRL. Um…I don’t like cats too much. That’s gotta put me in a minority. I don’t hate them, I just can do without them and wouldn’t really notice if they disappeared from the Earth. Just sayin’. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-sdmb-minority-are-you-in/366692/70 "2006-07-31T19:56:08Z")
[QUOTE=NoClueBoy] I don’t know … Any discussion of the Jazzes always gathers a goodly number of posts. Tho some threads are simply arguments amongst a few hard heads. [/QUOTE] That’s a reasonable statement. I have contributed to quite a few jazz-related threads, some of which have gone into the second or third page, and there may be as many as 50 Dopers (maybe even more) who admit to some interest in and knowledge of jazz. It’s just that when “music” topics come up, unless they specifically mention jazz in the OP, most responses are in the non-jazz genres. I suspect there are more “Classical” fans than Jazz fans. And way more Rock and Pop fans. ---
**Author:** ![StuffLikeThatThere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc8723/32.png) [@StuffLikeThatThere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StuffLikeThatThere)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-sdmb-minority-are-you-in/366692/71 "2006-07-31T19:57:39Z")
[QUOTE=StuffLikeThatThere] 2. I don’t use swear words, or at least I try very very hard not to. Maybe I’m just spending too much time in the Pit, though, and Dopers overall aren’t as foul-mouthed as I think. [/QUOTE] I re-read that, and thought I sounded a little snotty, which I didn’t intend. I don’t have objections to other people swearing as much as they’d like. Have at it, you son of a motherless goat. Yes, yes, I’m a wuss. ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-sdmb-minority-are-you-in/366692/72 "2006-07-31T19:58:28Z")
1. White - as white as they come 2. Heterosexual - nope, will try anything once and most things a lot more 3. Over 20 but under 40 years old - yep 4. Live East of the Mississippi in the USA - well, east of the Mississippi, but not in the USA 5. Live North of Kentucky and Virginia in the USA - well, north of Kentucky and Virginia, but not in the USA 6. Have at least some college education - the local equivalent, sure 7. Speak English as a first (if not only) language - nope, second 8. Own a pet - no pets 9. Don’t smoke - no smoking. 4 out of 9. Hey, I’m minorer than I thought. ---
**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-sdmb-minority-are-you-in/366692/73 "2006-07-31T20:37:25Z")
8 out of 9 - I live in Florida. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-sdmb-minority-are-you-in/366692/74 "2006-07-31T20:48:06Z")
> [@](#): > > 1. White Do the whites of my eyes count? Otherwise, nope. > [@](#): > > 1. Heterosexual Mostly, but I reserve the option to change my mind if I meet Mandy Patinkin. > [@](#): > > 1. Over 20 but under 40 years old Well, technically, but I’m both immature and an old soul. > [@](#): > > 1. Live East of the Mississippi in the USA Yeah. > [@](#): > > 1. Live North of Kentucky and Virginia in the USA Nah. > [@](#): > > 1. Have at least some college education Yeah. > [@](#): > > 1. Speak English as a first (if not only) language Yeah. > [@](#): > > 1. Own a pet Nope. Silly phobias! > [@](#): > > 1. Don’t smoke Only in college on the day of the Great American Smoke-out, even even then only to be a jerk. So that’s 6 out of 9. I’m so ordinary. :😭: ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-sdmb-minority-are-you-in/366692/75 "2006-07-31T20:48:45Z")
Eight out of nine, because I don’t have a pet. As for living within 25 miles of a major urban area… define “major”? We’ve got Applebee’s and and BB&B and even a Super Target (I know bigger cities that don’t have them), and a mall with department stores (note the plural). We don’t have Williams-Sonoma or Banana Republic, though. We’re that size. ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angel_of_the_lord/32/2949_2.png) [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_the_Lord)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-sdmb-minority-are-you-in/366692/76 "2006-07-31T22:37:40Z")
Seven and a half out of nine. Number two’s off, and I speak both English and Spanish, though English is my first language, and my Spanish isn’t perfect. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-sdmb-minority-are-you-in/366692/77 "2006-07-31T23:18:05Z")
9 for 9, but I’m over 40 miles from a city with over 40 thousand people. ---
**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 31, 2006, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-sdmb-minority-are-you-in/366692/78 "2006-07-31T23:46:38Z")
8 for 9. All I’m missing is a pet. Would someone bring me a nice [kitty](http://mfrost.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/dealsdealsdeals.jpg) please? I do think I belong to the following SDMB minorities: retroculturalists (people like **Eve** and **RealityChuck** ) jazz fans semi-working musicians folks who aren’t all that into science fiction ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2006, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-sdmb-minority-are-you-in/366692/79 "2006-08-01T00:48:07Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] 1. White 2. Heterosexual 3. Over 20 but under 40 years old 4. Live East of the Mississippi in the USA 5. Live North of Kentucky and Virginia in the USA 6. Have at least some college education 7. Speak English as a first (if not only) language 8. Own a pet 9. Don’t smoke . [/QUOTE] 10. - Check 11. - Check 12. - No (older) 13. - No\* 14. - No\*\* 15. - Check 16. - First but not only language 17. - Check 18. - Check (Used to smoke, though.) \*I’m inclined to think the OP is right about (4), but only because of a greater population density in the eastern half of the country. It would be a natural result. \*\*I’m inclined to think this is wrong, only because being north of Kentucky would cut out a major swath of the southern U.S., including one or two enormous metro areas. On the other hand, if the OP meant, “From States traditionally thought of as culturally belonging to the South”, then probably the statement holds. ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2006, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-sdmb-minority-are-you-in/366692/80 "2006-08-01T00:58:27Z")
[QUOTE=TheLoadedDog] I would imagine that political persuasion would be an important one that seems to be missing. I would consider myself in a minority there as well. I classify myself as a conservative (not that I don’t **always** equate this with right wing). I’m generally slightly right of centre, and I tend to vote that way here in Australiam and would be R if I were American, and Tory in the UK - but never blindly (I am thinking of voting Labor next time here). [/QUOTE] State or Federal?? I’m an over-50 non-USAnian. That gives me 6 out of 9, I believe. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-sdmb-minority-are-you-in/366692.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-sdmb-minority-are-you-in/366692.md?page=5)