Prius Or Pickup? Quotes

“There may be another reason Bleus love all these coffee and beer choices—they’re more likely to be neurotic. In personality psychology, being more neurotic includes a greater propensity to experience worry and anxiety.”
― Marc Hetherington, Prius Or Pickup?: How the Answers to Four Simple Questions Explain America's Great Divide

“As Anaïs Nin, or a Talmudic scholar, or any one of a number of writers over the past two hundred years who’ve been credited with the phrase once wrote, “We don’t see things as they are; we see them as we are.”
― Marc Hetherington, Prius Or Pickup?: How the Answers to Four Simple Questions Explain America's Great Divide

“Put bluntly, this study showed that partisans are willing to choose a demonstrably less qualified person to receive a scholarship, provided that person identifies with their party. And in making these decisions, partisans seem to care much more about political affiliation than race: while researchers found some racial bias reflected in the respondents’ decisions, the amount was negligible compared with the partisan bias.”
― Marc Hetherington, Prius Or Pickup?: How the Answers to Four Simple Questions Explain America's Great Divide

“Those who liked the pages of Democratic candidates had markedly different musical tastes from those who liked the pages of Republican candidates. Some of the differences can be explained by race and region. African American musicians, such as Michael Jackson, Mary J. Blige, Alicia Keys, and Beyoncé, are favorites of Democrats but not Republicans. The fans of noted Jamaican pacifist stoner Bob Marley lean particularly strongly to the left. But Democrats are attracted to more than just performers of color. Acts as diverse as Lady Gaga, Adele, Pink Floyd, and the Beatles are also especially popular in more-liberal precincts.”
― Marc Hetherington, Prius Or Pickup?: How the Answers to Four Simple Questions Explain America's Great Divide

“Goodreads also found that liberals and conservatives flocked to fundamentally different types of books. Obama supporters outnumbered Romney supporters by three to one in reading books written by Jonathan Franzen, the critically acclaimed fiction author. Romney voters, by contrast, read David McCullough at a rate of two to one compared with Obama voters. McCullough, too, is highly acclaimed, having been awarded two Pulitzers during his decades-long career—but he writes popular historical nonfiction, a genre more in line with a practical-minded, fixed worldview and very different from Franzen’s style.”
― Marc Hetherington, Prius Or Pickup?: How the Answers to Four Simple Questions Explain America's Great Divide

“In fact, the amount of time people attend school is one of the life choices most strongly associated with worldview.”
― Marc Hetherington, Prius Or Pickup?: How the Answers to Four Simple Questions Explain America's Great Divide

“Political commentators often talk about red states and blue states, but that is misleading. In blue states, huge expanses of red usually exist across their rural counties. And, in red states, a few pockets of blue pop up where cities are located”
― Marc Hetherington, Prius Or Pickup?: How the Answers to Four Simple Questions Explain America's Great Divide

“When politics was centrally about the size of government and how much to tax, the resulting disagreements were about the fundamentals of governing, which, frankly, most Americans care little about. How hot can disagreements get when the details are complicated and people have little motivation to learn them?”
― Marc Hetherington, Prius Or Pickup?: How the Answers to Four Simple Questions Explain America's Great Divide

“Obama’s embrace of nuance distinguished him sharply from his GOP antagonists. Back in 2004, President George W. Bush told Senator Joe Biden, “I don’t do nuance.” Former Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal, a Republican, even blamed Trump’s ascendance in 2016 on precisely this penchant of Obama’s, writing in the Wall Street Journal that, “after seven years of the cool, weak and endlessly nuanced ‘no drama Obama,’ voters are looking for a strong leader who speaks in short, declarative sentences.” His remarks mirror criticisms made several years earlier by Mitt Romney, who accused the then-president of being “tentative, indecisive, timid and nuanced.” (The response of one liberal pundit shows the fluid perspective clearly: “Obama is ‘nuanced’? Yes, but can someone explain why that’s a bad thing? It’s a complex, ‘turbulent,’ and ever-changing world. Having a chief executive who appreciates and is aware of ‘nuance’ strikes me as positive.”)”
― Marc Hetherington, Prius Or Pickup?: How the Answers to Four Simple Questions Explain America's Great Divide

“Another result of the recent convergence of politics and worldview is that America’s main political parties don’t just disagree on how to solve problems, they disagree on what the problems are in the first place.”
― Marc Hetherington, Prius Or Pickup?: How the Answers to Four Simple Questions Explain America's Great Divide

“Of the many factors that make up your worldview, one is more fundamental than any other in determining which side of the divide you gravitate toward: your perception of how dangerous the world is. Fear is perhaps our most primal instinct, after all, so it’s only logical that people’s level of fearfulness informs their outlook on life.”
― Marc Hetherington, Prius Or Pickup?: How the Answers to Four Simple Questions Explain America's Great Divide

“Like racial bias, partisan bias apparently occurs automatically, beyond the control of a person’s conscious thoughts.”
― Marc Hetherington, Prius Or Pickup?: How the Answers to Four Simple Questions Explain America's Great Divide

“One quick and easy way that researchers have gauged Americans’ relative levels of prejudice is to ask them about their children’s potential marriage partners. This is because people are very good at hiding their prejudices, until the point where intermarriage is on the table.”
― Marc Hetherington, Prius Or Pickup?: How the Answers to Four Simple Questions Explain America's Great Divide

“When they identify as members of groups and that identity becomes central to how they feel about themselves, they start to care—a lot—about even the most inconsequential matters. This is a product of our tendency to favor groups we belong to and denigrate those we do not: a central feature of human nature, and an outgrowth of fundamental survival strategies.”
― Marc Hetherington, Prius Or Pickup?: How the Answers to Four Simple Questions Explain America's Great Divide

“Because the marriage is a passionate one, built on something as primal as a fixed or fluid worldview as opposed to something more anodyne like taxing and spending, the result is predictably intense and tumultuous. The consequences of these strongly negative feelings are legion. Many are deeply troubling. Decades of research in social psychology reveal that group identities can matter profoundly to people.”
― Marc Hetherington, Prius Or Pickup?: How the Answers to Four Simple Questions Explain America's Great Divide

“Political parties themselves do not ensure polarization either—America has had them basically forever and the country hasn’t always been polarized. For political parties to be polarizing, people need to feel that particular identity intensely. The marriage between worldview and party creates polarization. Once the two have become one, people with worldviews fit into a well-established and long-standing social group—a political party—and this social identity breeds an “us versus them” mentality.”
― Marc Hetherington, Prius Or Pickup?: How the Answers to Four Simple Questions Explain America's Great Divide

“Perhaps most troubling, these problems are not confined to the United States; the kind of worldview divide that has reshaped American politics has now appeared in Europe, with the same disturbing currents there that have come to characterize the United States.”
― Marc Hetherington, Prius Or Pickup?: How the Answers to Four Simple Questions Explain America's Great Divide

“Conservative leaders have been castigating universities as hotbeds of radicalism and anti-Americanism for decades. But until a few years ago, a clear majority of Americans across the political spectrum believed those institutions played a positive role in American life. President Nixon made his hatred of the press abundantly clear. But in the 1960s and 1970s polls showed that media were among the most respected institutions in the United States. Republicans, even more than Democrats, admired their contribution to democracy.”
― Marc Hetherington, Prius Or Pickup?: How the Answers to Four Simple Questions Explain America's Great Divide

“Many partisans no longer want their kids to marry someone from the other party. They are also more likely to withhold a scholarship from a qualified person from the other party than from a qualified person of another race. Considering the intensity of America’s racial divisions, statements like these should give every reader pause.”
― Marc Hetherington, Prius Or Pickup?: How the Answers to Four Simple Questions Explain America's Great Divide

“The fixed and fluid reported liking classic rock in about equal numbers. While our 2017 survey did not include questions about which types of classic rock people like, the aforementioned Facebook study did find a few classic rock bands that Republicans and Democrats were equally likely to be fans of. They included Bon Jovi, Aerosmith, Journey, AC/DC, and Metallica. We suspect that, if asked to clarify, the fluids likely would have identified boutique subgenres of classic rock, as opposed to usual guitar-riff fare.”
― Marc Hetherington, Prius Or Pickup?: How the Answers to Four Simple Questions Explain America's Great Divide

“By contrast, not a single respondent at the fixed end of the worldview distribution identified either rap or hip-hop as his or her favorite, to say nothing of K-pop or EDM. Instead, the fixed especially love country, oldies, and old country. Country music turned out to be a very polarizing genre. A significant number of the fluid said that they like all music except country.”
― Marc Hetherington, Prius Or Pickup?: How the Answers to Four Simple Questions Explain America's Great Divide

“The results are consistent with the worldview divide. The fluid reported that they love rap and hip-hop, along with a remarkable range of other favorites that include both widely popular genres (such as pop, rock, and classic rock) and a lot of niche interests. For example, a smattering of people identified world music, Korean pop, and electronic dance music, all of which have their roots outside the United States, as their favorites.”
― Marc Hetherington, Prius Or Pickup?: How the Answers to Four Simple Questions Explain America's Great Divide

“Country music dominates the acts favored by Republicans. New country, old country, all country—from Miranda Lambert and Lady Antebellum to Tim McGraw and Blake Shelton. From Jason Aldean and Kenny Chesney to Carrie Underwood, Brad Paisley, and Toby Keith. Old-time country legend George Strait is particularly popular among Republicans (and particularly unpopular among Democrats).”
― Marc Hetherington, Prius Or Pickup?: How the Answers to Four Simple Questions Explain America's Great Divide

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― Marc Hetherington, Prius Or Pickup?: How the Answers to Four Simple Questions Explain America's Great Divide

“Not surprisingly, then, microtargeting data also suggests that Republicans are more apt to watch sports than Democrats are. All the most popular sports on television, such as college football, the PGA golf tour, NASCAR, the Olympic Games, and the NFL, include audiences that tilt Republican. Among the few sports that Democrats seem to prefer, the NBA stands out, while Democrats are also more likely than Republicans to watch niche sports such as tennis, soccer, and extreme sports.”
― Marc Hetherington, Prius Or Pickup?: How the Answers to Four Simple Questions Explain America's Great Divide

“The shows that lean Republican are much different from the Democratic shows. Republicans like reality shows such as Duck Dynasty, Shark Tank, The Amazing Race, Survivor, and The Bachelor more than Democrats do.”
― Marc Hetherington, Prius Or Pickup?: How the Answers to Four Simple Questions Explain America's Great Divide

“veggie burger hamburger chicken tikka masala sweet-and-sour chicken muffin brownie avocado salad Caesar salad lentil soup wonton soup BLT buffalo chicken wrap margherita pizza barbecue chicken pizza guacamole mozzarella sticks”
― Marc Hetherington, Prius Or Pickup?: How the Answers to Four Simple Questions Explain America's Great Divide

“Based on these data, Time invited readers to estimate how Republican or Democratic their own diet was by asking them to choose between ten different two-dish alternatives. The ten choices included several of the following:”
― Marc Hetherington, Prius Or Pickup?: How the Answers to Four Simple Questions Explain America's Great Divide

“Still, to the Bleus, being organized isn’t as important as being creative, and their dinner choices reflect that.”
― Marc Hetherington, Prius Or Pickup?: How the Answers to Four Simple Questions Explain America's Great Divide

“Things are often a little chaotic at the Bleu house at the dinner hour. Actually, who knows when the dinner hour will be? It depends on what is going on that night.”
― Marc Hetherington, Prius Or Pickup?: How the Answers to Four Simple Questions Explain America's Great Divide