In The Place Where You Are

Riding Metro is a microcosm of our area; I was idly wondering if you could guess where any given person on the train lived based on which direction they were headed, which stop they got on/off, age, gender, race.

And then I realized there's a statistic for that -- it's called demographics. Duh.

Race	Montgomery/MD	Fairfax/VA	Wash/DC	USA
White	66.9%	71.6%	40.1%	79.8%
Black	16.9%	9.6%	54.4%	12.8%
Am.Indian	0.4%	0.4%	0.4%	1.0%
Asian	13.5%	15.9%	3.4%	4.5%
Pacific Is.	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
Hispanic (b)	14.8%	14.1%	8.6%	15.4%

(b) Hispanics may be of any race, so also are included in applicable race categories.
Source: http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/index.html (2008)

Piling On

Fellow blogger, Thoughts of a Regular Guy by Paul, just this guy, you know?, recently commented on the "Politics of Personal Destruction" in which he writes: "Liberalism is a philosophy of hate. And they sure do hate Sarah Palin.

Having put together my own thoughts on the problems of the prevailing philosophy recently, I would add one word to his: "Modern Liberalism is a philosophy of hate."

Being curious, I wondered if any real attempt had been undertaken to support or disprove the view. Thus, this piece from Michelle Malkin in January 2008 entitled The statistical proof of liberal intolerance.

When I was on the book tour for Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild, critics predictably countered by playing the moral equivalence card. Show them how intolerant, racist, sexist, hateful, conspiratorial-minded, and violent the Left can be, and they sputter “B-b-b-b-b-ut the Right is just as bad.”

Spend anytime in the blogosphere and it’s clear that the two sides of the political galaxy are not created equal. One side burns effigies of American soldiers and craps on the American flag. The other does not. One side wraps itself in assassination chic. The other does not. One side indulges in vicious Sambo photoshops, rank religious bigotry, death wishes, gloating over the illnesses of public figures, and fill-in-the-blank derangement syndrome. The other does not.

Now comes fascinating statistical evidence that the Left is indeed more hateful than the Right. Syracuse University professor Arthur Brooks writes in the WSJ today about annual surveys that shed light on just how unhinged liberals really are:

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