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According to Patchwork Nation, I live in a Monied Burb. Those of you who’ve followed my blogs may be thinking, “What? I thought you lived in the ‘hood?” I do. I don’t exactly match my patch. Patchwork Nation is a project by Dante Chinni that attempts to expand the political categories in the U.S. beyond red and blue. The project categorizes every area of the United States using the same kind of market research that the candidates’ speech writers use: income, education level, profession, and religion. Though it has its limitations, the Patchwork map of the U.S. is a much more vibrant quilt than the Blue State/Red State map we’ve all seen so many times!

Throughout this past year, I've been following the primary very closely. I have noticed many ups and downs with the candidates for each party. Watching CSPAN became the norm for me.

I'm taking AP Government this year (Go SENIORS!!! lol)Right now we're looking at liberal v. conservative v. everything else.  We took this little survey, and saw where everyone came out, and our assignment is now to find out where other people that we know fit.  So...

How many books do you read in a year? If you're like 25% of the American adult population, you didn't read any.

An Associated Press-Ipsos poll released last month studied the reading habits of Americans, and found that one in four adults say that they read no books in the past year. Blame it on the Internet or our fast-paced lives, but 25% of the population is not reading books.

The following blog is partial taken from the book Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner. There argument will be placed in part 1 and mine will follow in part 2. I will not cite any sources in part 1 b/c i am telling you now that it is from Freakonomics, see their cites if you have questions.

Part 1