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[quote=Anonymous]I got a 37 and fit the "second-generation (or more) upper middle class who gets out a lot" description, though I didn't grow up in the continental U.S. and that skewed things a little (e.g. where I grew up there was no such thing as varsity letters).

I do think that the "bubble" works both ways, though.  The social divide is not just because the "elite" is out of touch with the "real" or "mainstream" America.  "Middle America" has its own bubble - how would many of the "real, down-to-earth" people that would get an average score on this test do on a test of how acquainted or insulated they are from people different to them.  How many are friends with people of other religions/political leanings?  How many are friends with people from other countries/speakers of other languages?  How many have any familiarity with other cultures/countries/cuisines?

And, lastly, in terms of numbers, that supposed NASCAR-loving, Evangelical "mainstream" is probably becoming less so, given the declining proportion of the white population and the spreading out of the "non-white" Hispanic and Asian immigrants across previously "all-American" parts of the country.  I think this kind of quiz is premised on a skewed (very white Christian) perspective of what's the real America and the mainstream.[/quote]

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