Comments on: Coffee shops vs 2012 election results

By: Dlo Burns

Dlo Burns — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 21:52:00 +0000

I remembered this:

http://www.ediblegeography.com/the-spatial-distribution-of-americans-in-relationship-to-starbucks/

By: Dlo Burns

Dlo Burns — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 21:46:00 +0000

Most mormons who do drink caffeinated beverages prefer super large 64 oz (half a gallon!) insulated mugs of Coke or Pepsi because it’s cheap, they last all day, and cola doesn’t fall under the ‘hot drink’ rule coffee or tea does.

There’s actually quite a few coffee shops here in Salt Lake (chain and indie) and typically at least one starbucks in every satellite town, but the state is so very sparsely populated too.

By: niktemadur

niktemadur — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 05:17:00 +0000

Ahm-REE-kah Isn't that a Flaming Lips album? I know, that's Zaireeka.

By: perchecreek

perchecreek — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 03:53:00 +0000

I'm working on a Waffle House Conjecture, but the intermountain/upper midwest high plains states don't fit. Waffle House locations by state (map).

By: acerplatanoides

acerplatanoides — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 02:51:00 +0000

@boundgear – I thought there was a chance you knew that Unitarians secretly enjoy being called heretics.

By: feetleet

feetleet — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 02:09:00 +0000

Oh Arizona, you’re so mavericky.

By: echolocate chocolate

echolocate chocolate — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 01:00:00 +0000

It’s called the TEA PARTY not the COFFEE PARTY. DUH

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 00:41:00 +0000

FYI – it’s Ahm-REE-kah.

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By: niktemadur

niktemadur — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Let’s invent coffee, Yousef, to subvert “Am-EH-ri-gah” when it is created five hundred years from now.
Death! To all that which hasn’t yet been created and is beyond our ability to create in our wildest flights of imagination!

Seriously now, I wonder what the Viennese made of all those sacks of coffee beans in the Ottoman tents when the siege was mysteriously abandoned overnight.

By: Boundegar

Boundegar — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 23:55:00 +0000

Haha no. I was playing. Dammit my emoticons are broken.

By: niktemadur

niktemadur — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 23:50:00 +0000

Then when all you liberals eat a Five Guys burger, skip the christian and patriotic ketchup, put only heathen and socialist mustard on it.

http://i.huffpost.com/gadgets/slideshows/1649/slide_1649_22603_large.jpg

By: Lupus_Yonderboy

Lupus_Yonderboy — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 23:06:00 +0000

It would probably just come up as “prepared food” (like a sammich) and thus not be eligible for supplemental nutrition assistance anyway.

/pedant

By: SamSam

SamSam — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 23:04:00 +0000

Woah, serious CSS fail here after Xeni added the picture…

Everything’s gotten super squished-over.

By: acerplatanoides

acerplatanoides — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 22:56:00 +0000

Yeah, we need to agree with these people reflexively. It’s the only way out of the madness. They live to fight.

*we don’t have to mean it. They deserve the respect they show.

By: acerplatanoides

acerplatanoides — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 22:47:00 +0000

You’re entirely sure I was trying to invalidate your point? That’s quaint.

maybe someone needs to stimulate some the bloodflow to their brain? I usually make the mistake you just did when I’ve had too much.

By: acerplatanoides

acerplatanoides — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 22:42:00 +0000

Thanks for asking. I’m not sure I’m capable of staying a step ahead of your assumptions about what I must mean so I’m just going to agree that there was irony involved, and it was directed solely at BlueVelvetCrossings statement. Not at your beliefs.

Part of what i am saying is that anyone who uses businesses to stand in for people in politics will develop the conclusuons they deserve.

By: SamSam

SamSam — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 22:14:00 +0000

Ok, so I may have been reading you wrong, and apologies if so. What did you mean by your question “Then why did Obama win those areas, if they’re so densely packed with the JC’s?” then?

To me (unless you were being intentionally ironic — Poe’s Law and all that) that is the definition of begging the question: your own question seems to simply assume the story that “job creators” wouldn’t vote for Obama.

By: acerplatanoides

acerplatanoides — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 22:04:00 +0000

Tell me what I believe about what, and maybe I’ll agree. What you said there involves too much presumption for me to respond respectfully.

“You seem to be trying to argue against reality (number of businesses in urban areas) to fit your beliefs about who voted for what.”

I’m not, not even close.

Another tip: people don’t like “another tip”

By: Boundegar

Boundegar — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 22:03:00 +0000

Yea every denomination says that. Nice to see that heretics like coffee too. Doesn’t invalidate my point.

By: acerplatanoides

acerplatanoides — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 22:00:00 +0000

Only if france falls to the caliphate first. Pffffffft.

By: SamSam

SamSam — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 21:59:00 +0000

Maybe because they didn’t buy into the Republican storyline that Obama was bad for jobs…?

You seem to be trying to argue against reality (number of businesses in urban areas) to fit your beliefs about who voted for what.

Another tip: when people tell you that folks only voted to get hand-outs, remember that blue states are net givers to the federal government, while red states are net takers. The Obama voters subsidize the Romney voters…

By: Walker Shurlds

Walker Shurlds — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 21:59:00 +0000

72% of the top 20 coffee states voted blue.
43.3% of the bottom 30 coffee states voted blue.

So a coffee state is about 1.5x as likely to be blue as a non-coffee state, I guess?

By: SamSam

SamSam — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 21:51:00 +0000

Croissants and Starbucks, I think you meant…

By: acerplatanoides

acerplatanoides — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 21:43:00 +0000

tylerdurden and jacklaughing were in a movie together once, but we’re not supposed to talk about that.

By: acerplatanoides

acerplatanoides — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 21:39:00 +0000

Then why did Obama win those areas, if they’re so densely packed with the JC’s?

By: TWX

TWX — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 21:36:00 +0000

That probably depends on if the coffee shop is in a grocery store and is integrated with the store’s point-of-sale…

/snark

By: SamSam

SamSam — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 21:35:00 +0000

Who does, SedanChair?
You can tell ’cause you come from a furniture town or something?

By: SamSam

SamSam — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 21:26:00 +0000

Yeah…. the correlation’s kind of crap, I have to say.

I bet you could make a dozen better ones. Cycling to work? Number of diverse immigrant groups? Colleges per square mile?

By: Marya

Marya — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 21:25:00 +0000

I am not so sure about your theory here.
I was listening to some Tea Party propaganda lady here in Ohio yesterday and she clearly said that the reason urban centers are all blue is because we are all on Welfare and Food Stamps.
The News woman even asked her “Are you sure it’s not the colleges and universities?”
“Nope,” she said “It’s The Welfare,”

BTW, can you buy a double grande skinny half-caf with food stamps?