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Where your ideology says you should live

26 points| eplanit | 11 years ago |washingtonpost.com | reply

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[+] yeldarb|11 years ago|reply
Population density alone isn't a great measure of how "urban" an area is.

I got Lester, IA which apparently has an off the charts population density of 464,912 people per square mile! Total population is only 294 though...

[+] aaronbrethorst|11 years ago|reply
Interesting, and dead-on. The zip code it chose for me is the one that borders my current zip code to the west, and happens to be the same one the article's author mentions. #3 is the one I currently live in, and #4 is the last one I lived in.

also, in case anyone cares: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Hill_(Seattle)

[+] hga|11 years ago|reply
Yeah. Tweaking "I prefer urban areas" (I like both), to "Agree" also go me within spitting distance of where I was born, raised, and have retired to.

GeoIP would not seem to be a strong component, for the "Don't Include" and "Disagree" options were a long ways away (both near the state capitol, in fact), although in my Purple state with two big cities there's really a lot of areas for everyone.

[+] freshyill|11 years ago|reply
I got Takoma Park, MD. Looking at the stats, I guess the nickname, "The People's Republic of Takoma Park" is pretty much accurate.

The place I actually live was #3 on the list, so close enough I guess.

[+] jaweegian|11 years ago|reply
Interesting. I got my current city as choice #2 for my state (Lookout Mountain, GA). My fiancee and I are considering moving to Greenville, which is my top result for SC.
[+] dice|11 years ago|reply
Great. According to this I should be living in Bolinas, CA where the cheapest house currently for sale is $1,249,000. I'll get right on that.
[+] IvyMike|11 years ago|reply
As far as I can tell, California & Democrat = live in San Francisco. If I say "non-urban" it puts me... outside of San Francisco.
[+] georgemcbay|11 years ago|reply
Yeah, I got Inverness. My answers were the obvious liberal ones, except gun control which I'm not fanatical about in either direction, but I don't believe increased gun control is a real and practical solution to any problem we currently have as a country.

I think I'll be staying in San Diego, though; it skews fairly conservative for California but like most places you can find plenty of people with similar views to your own here if that's what you're after.

[+] kokey|11 years ago|reply
I wonder if the data is accessible. What I'm interested in is testing my theory that people in urban areas are more pro-environment.
[+] jordan0day|11 years ago|reply
This doesn't seem to weight the "prefer to live in urban areas" item very highly. It placed me in a town of 207.
[+] rrbrambley|11 years ago|reply
I already live in the zip code it said I should ideally reside in. And #3 was my previous zip code. Hm.
[+] jwgur|11 years ago|reply
Small nit-pick: "Pro-gun" is not an ideology, it's a position that might flow from an ideology e.g. libertarianism, or might just be a stand-alone position.
[+] hga|11 years ago|reply
"Pro-gun" is an utterly reliable touchstone. Granted, it doesn't say if you're e.g. libertarian or paleoconservative, the two that are reliably pro-gun (I'm some of both), but it's a really really good marker.
[+] protomyth|11 years ago|reply
I don't think I ever met anyone who was "pro-gun" but not about individual liberties.