His entry begins:I've been reading Personal Days, by Ed Park, which based on the reviews (and the first couple of chapters, which is what I've read so far) is a remake of Joshua Ferris's Then We Come to the End, last year's hilarious and claustrophobic satire on office-cubicle life. Ferris's and Park's books read like a cross between Geoffrey O'Brien and Don DeLillo, only funnier. Or like a fast-forward Richard Ford without the smugness.[read on]Visit the official website for Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State. Among the myths and facts about the red and the blue that Gelman exposes:
Myth: The rich vote based on economics, the poor vote "God, guns, and gays."Learn more about Andrew Gelman and his work at his website and his blog.
Fact: Church attendance predicts Republican voting much more among rich than poor.Myth: A political divide exists between working-class "red America" and rich "blue America."
Fact: Within any state, more rich people vote Republican. The real divide is between higher-income voters in red and blue states.
Myth: Rich people vote for the Democrats.
Fact: George W. Bush won more than 60 percent of high-income voters.
Myth: Religion is particularly divisive in American politics.
Fact: Religious and secular voters differ no more in America than in France, Germany, Sweden, and many other European countries.
Gelman is a professor in the Departments of Statistics and Political Science at Columbia University, director of the Applied Statistics Center, and also the founding director of the Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences program.
Writers Read: Andrew Gelman.
--Marshal Zeringue
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