The scores are interesting — but they really do what they say. It doesn’t indicate what you are or are thinking, necessarily — it just shows how isolated you are (or not, in my case) from mainstream America.

I am a reactionary libertarian extropian technophile monarchist. I am certainly not in line with mainstream thinking. But I am in it if not of it.

Why my score was high — while my dad is a historian, he was not the primary breadwinner for my family after the divorce. Mom worked in a bakery, which is blue-collar equivalent, when I was little, despite her college degree. That resulted in poverty. Poverty again in my twenties, though largely by choice. Lots of blue-collar jobs then, too, in between stints in college. I’ve lived in small and very small towns by choice as an adult, and a smallish town growing up. Lower-income, blue-collar neighborhood as a child, a lot of my friends there were (charitably speaking) not college-bound, and neither had their parents been. When I lived in urban areas as an adult, they weren’t the nice parts of town.

I scored on the Budweiser question, though I will cop to having bought it ironically.

The closest I came to being in the bubble was the years right after I got married, when I lived in the DC suburbs. Hated it and most of the people in it; and as quickly as I could moved an hour and half away. The commute sucks, but I find my neighbors more congenial. Going into DC one day a week for work is always a bit of mental shock.

Strangely, perhaps, I’ve found a fair number of people who are also ex-bubble living out here. They share some of the tastes of bubbleites, like organic food, etc., but not the attitudes. It seems like that sort of community might be trending larger, and I am certainly a part of it.

There were a few years in that bubble, but before I was a factory worker or farmer, and after I’m a farmer, so it was only a vacation, albeit one that paid stupendously well.