You Are What You Drive

Due diligence: I love my F-350 4WD diesel pickup truck. It’s the most comfortable, practical, powerful and newest of the three motor vehicles we own. And it barely fits in our oversize garage.

The New York Post reports Stanford University research which shows a correlation between what you drive and how you vote. I don’t find this conclusion surprising at all.

When sedans outnumbered pickup trucks, there was an 88 percent chance the city would vote Democratic.

In areas with more pickup trucks, the odds switched to 82 percent in favor of Republicans, the researchers concluded.

The DrsC have joked about this for years. We’ve felt we could tell the politics of a region by whether parking spaces are big enough to accomodate full-sized pickups comfortably.

Classically, at our CA university the parking spaces were always too tight. Exactly what you’d expect in a hive of brie-eating, bicycle-loving socialists.

By contrast in WY, no problemo. WY has lots of room for pickups which are the modal vehicle and has lots of Republicans too. In some WY districts, Democrats don’t waste time fielding candidates for state legislator.