I’d wager that most of the folks reading this have spent some amount of time looking at red/blue maps of the United States this week. Allow me to add a few bits of slightly different red & blue to the mix.
This is the map generated for me by a dialect quiz that _Tyler Elliott recently sent my way. How it works: you answer a handful of questions about how you _ pronounce this-or-that word, and it spits out a heatmap showing you the regions of the country that you are most/least likely to have come from based on those pronunciations. It’s based on data from research on regional dialects. This is my “most similar” map. Unfortunately, I didn’t think to capture the link or the “least similar” map before I went on about my day, but…well…it’s eerily-accurate.
Alternatively, if you’re into video-game-based sci-fi comedy, maybe this is more your speed. (Side note: Who remembers this? …and who knew that they’re apparently still at it?)
…and finally, here’s a pic I like to call “Red State, Blue Tongue”:
In case you can’t quite make it out, those shirts say “Future Voter”.