Map of a Divided Facebook
Did you know “God” is the most popular Facebook fan page in every southern U.S. state? The West Coast elites, meanwhile, like Michael Jackson, Barack Obama and Starbucks. Above: a map of Pete Warden’s social network census, via ReadWriteWeb.
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Go west coast elites!
fheadcase
@JudyPaceFace: You may say that, but your lifted truck and TapOut shirt say differently. (I kid, I went to school near the IE and its nice, but I cant say I want to live there, then again Im not entirely convinced I want to stay in SoCal so).
TheClap
@Trai_Dep: Meh, Austin is now expensive and full of people from the Midwest and other states now. It’s lost the funkiness it had years ago.
AraRichards
@ostartero: St. Louis and Columbia can come tag along with Chicago.
ArmCandy
@Trai_Dep: Oh my goodness, I hate self-righteous snobs. I live in the Inland Empire and I’ll bet I have more style and sophistication in my shortest eyelash than you have in your entire being.
JudyPaceFace
@NightElfMohawk: I look at Austin much in the same way I look at Miami or New Orleans. Spectacular, authentic cities filled with similarly spectacular, authentic people who have the grave misfortune of suffering from some cruel geographic calamity that forces them to stare quizzically at their neighbors wondering what happened.
Trai_Dep
As someone who’s lived in both Northern California and SoCal, I can authoritatively state “SoCal” ends where San Bernadino County begins.
Then it’s some godforsaken, suburban Hell filled with transplanted Oakies (only with more guns and even higher foreclosure rates), chain restaurants and Wal-Marts until you hit Santa Cruz, where Northern California proper starts.
Sort of like FlyOver country, except it’s in our own state.
I’m hopeful our upcoming MagLev train will give us the terrestrial equivalent of zipping past mid-Cal as we jaunt from party spot to party spot on both poles of our fine state.
Trai_Dep
I thought “Socalistan” was “Socialism”.
coloredmaps
Dixie? I think you mean Stankonia.
Also it’s kind of unfair to imply that the “Christian God” is the top fan page in the South. I clicked on the link and the fan page includes Christian God, Allah, Jehovah, Buddha, etc under the title of God. Also the “deepest” southern states (Georgia, Alabama, Florida, and a few others) had God in 2nd or even 3rd place.
Dirty South representin’ y’all.
Slim
@Voyou_Charmant: Then leave. Have you never seen Jersey Shore? You can be/feel fucking retarded anywhere in the country.
Slim
@ostartero: It does not. Did you not see that video of Yale sorority girls yesterday?
/theory fail.
Slim
Oh god, why did Missouri get sucked up in “Greater Texas”?
I wanted to think of us as two blue cities in a sea of hicks.
ostartero
@AraRichards: The south does have lower levels of education, which may or may not be a level of intelligence.
ostartero
@amowls: Those lists always confused me. Who the hell were Jack Johnson and OAR and why had I never heard of them before?
Yahweh Took My Prepuce
@AraRichards: Exactly.
Voyou_Charmant
Hooray for Austin being the only Texas city without God in the Top 10.
NightElfMohawk
@Voyou_Charmant: yup, makes me feel fucking retarded
AraRichards
@AraRichards: …and religious intolerance and obesity and racism and incest.
See how stupid broad generalizations are?
Voyou_Charmant
@Voyou_Charmant: Yeah, damn south, with their jobs and avoiding mass foreclosures. wish I lived in Cali, where I get to sleep in a box and drink starbucks
AraRichards
@Voyou_Charmant: Agree. Sigh…
tomqvaxy
@Mrs. Beeton: Mom?
Brad Brown
@Mrs. Beeton: HAHA. Well, yes… That is true, but my concern is being found guilty by association.
Voyou_Charmant
Back in the day of Facebook only being available to college kids, you could compare favorites with other college networks (like Interests, Books, Music, TV, etc). The Bible was the most popular book at most colleges, save for Eugene Lang which was Harry Potter. Jack Johnson was also always in the top 5, and again, except for Lang where he was no where to be found and Postal Service and Bjork were favorites.
I always found that interesting.
amowls
@Voyou_Charmant: I find that living in the South makes me feel both intellectually and morally superior. Also thinner.
Mrs. Beeton
I read the “Stayathomia” as being the region with a high number of stay-at-home moms because that’s like my entire Ohio facebook friend list.
ihatebutterflies
@Voyou_Charmant: I was born here; there’s a little retard in all of us (mine’s Corky Thatcher).
Brad Brown
This isn’t exactly ground breaking work here. Everyone (except midwest – which everyone knows is dying) is connected to neighboring cities and the people in the bible belt are a fan of God on facebook. Revolutionary.
godawgs7
And the world ends at the 49th parallel. Huh.
DeadliestSin
I like how Upper Michigan doesn’t have a single connection to the rest of the country. Go U.P.
rabbitangstrom
Living in the south makes me feel fucking retarded.
Voyou_Charmant