http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/bigsort/archive/tags/culture+shift/default.aspxTags: culture shiftenCommunityServer 2.1 SP2 (Build: 61129.2)http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/bigsort/archive/2008/10/29/the-many-ways-we-sort-ourselves.aspxWed, 29 Oct 2008 14:18:00 GMTb38b617e-fbf1-4816-b2a6-f11ec83af8cb:3946Bill Bishop0http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/bigsort/comments/3946.aspxhttp://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/bigsort/commentrss.aspx?PostID=3946Before last week, every time Valdis Krebs mapped the reading habits of those buying political books through Amazon.com, he found a few volumes read by both the left and the right . Krebs used data from Amazon to discover the patterns among readers of...(<a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/bigsort/archive/2008/10/29/the-many-ways-we-sort-ourselves.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://www.slate.com/blogs/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3946" width="1" height="1">Barack ObamaJohn McCaindemographyculture shifthttp://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/bigsort/archive/2008/10/28/difference-between-rs-and-ds-it-s-all-in-the-stuff.aspxTue, 28 Oct 2008 14:46:00 GMTb38b617e-fbf1-4816-b2a6-f11ec83af8cb:3938Bill Bishop0http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/bigsort/comments/3938.aspxhttp://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/bigsort/commentrss.aspx?PostID=3938When Sam Gosling studied the differences between liberal and conservative college students, he and his colleagues went snooping for cleaning supplies. In the dorm rooms of conservatives, they found more cans of Ajax and ironing boards. In an unpublished...(<a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/bigsort/archive/2008/10/28/difference-between-rs-and-ds-it-s-all-in-the-stuff.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://www.slate.com/blogs/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3938" width="1" height="1">Political SegregationConservativesculture shiftworkplace2004 electionLiberalshttp://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/bigsort/archive/2008/10/15/where-are-all-the-good-men.aspxWed, 15 Oct 2008 14:50:00 GMTb38b617e-fbf1-4816-b2a6-f11ec83af8cb:3845Bill Bishop0http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/bigsort/comments/3845.aspxhttp://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/bigsort/commentrss.aspx?PostID=3845Political polling parses data according to broad demographic categories—by sex, age, education, race, religion. The polls have been run this way for years, which makes it easy to compare results from election to election. It doesn't matter that these...(<a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/bigsort/archive/2008/10/15/where-are-all-the-good-men.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://www.slate.com/blogs/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3845" width="1" height="1">DemocratsConservativeswomendemographyculture shiftmen