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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 …

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