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Googling Idaho’s Tendencies

Chris Cillizza of Washington Post's The Fix blog offers a map today that reveals how people generally stereotype every state in the union. Cillizza explains: "Today we happened upon an awesome map put together by Renee DiResta at her No Upside blog.  What DiResta did is simple but revealing. In Google she typed in “Why is [fill in the blank state] so…” and let Google’s autocomplete function, which tracks the most common words typed after “so”, do the rest. She mapped the top four auto-completes for each state." The three words she uses to describe Idaho are: "so Republican, so conservative and so boring." Washington: "So rainy, so cloudy, so liberal, so important." You can see the whole map here.

Fill in the blank (in 3 or 4 words): Why is Idaho so ...



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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