QUIRK: Is Your Town Red or Blue? | Sojourners

QUIRK: Is Your Town Red or Blue?

Beer and Church tweet map, FloatingSheep.org
Beer and Church tweet map, FloatingSheep.org

A new map has divided the country into red and blue ... but this one has nothing do do with politics or the upcoming election. No, we're not talking Republicans or Democrats; we're talking Church or Beer. (Do the two have to be mutually exclusive? What if you're Lutheran?)

FloatingSheep.org compiled geotagged Tweets from June 22 - 28 comparing the geographic concentration of convos regarding church and beer. 

From the report: 

"San Francisco has the largest margin in favor of 'beer' tweets (191 compared to 46 for 'churc'") with Boston (Suffolk county) running a close second. Los Angeles has the distinction of containing the most tweets overall (busy, busy thumbs in Southern California). In contrast, Dallas, Texas wins the FloatingSheep award for most geotagged tweets about 'church' with 178 compared to only 83 about 'beer.'"

(HT to the Atlantic Cities)

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