Whole Food Counties vs Cracker Barrel Counties (suspect, school, money)

[VikingsToValhalla]

I shop at Whole Foods, but I vote conservative.

[SunGrins]

My blue county has both.

[green_mariner]

Originally Posted by VikingsToValhalla

I shop at Whole Foods, but I vote conservative.

I shop at Whole Foods. I've voted Republican, Democratic, and Libertarian (voted 3rd party the last two elections. Johnson in 2016, Jorgensen in 2020).

[green_mariner]

Originally Posted by SunGrins

My blue county has both.

I live in a red-ish county and we have both. We also have Sprouts and Trader Joe's.

[BlakeJones]

Originally Posted by green_mariner

I shop at Whole Foods. I've voted Republican, Democratic, and Libertarian (voted 3rd party the last two elections. Johnson in 2016, Jorgensen in 2020).

Whole Foods is just way overpriced, plus everyone who shops there seems to have an air of elitist smugness about them

[green_mariner]

Originally Posted by BlakeJones

Whole Foods is just way overpriced, plus everyone who shops there seems to have an air of elitist smugness about them

Some things there are overpriced. Alot of the things I've gotten weren't terribly high in price. I've gotten produce and meat from Whole Foods, for similar prices as in Publix. In my own experience, the most elitist-minded places I've seen were very upscale restaurants where a salad costs $25 (I don't eat that them). I've seen more elitist attitudes at those places than at Whole Foods. I don't recall a time when I've been treated with an air of arrogance at Whole Foods.

[BlakeJones]

Originally Posted by green_mariner

I don't recall a time when I've been treated with an air of arrogance at Whole Foods.

Was talking about the customers. The staff seems fine

[green_mariner]

Originally Posted by BlakeJones

Was talking about the customers. The staff seems fine

I was talking about both customers and staff.

[Hightower72]

Originally Posted by paracord

These articles are funny. Here are the real stats, regardless of where the Cracker Barrels or Whole Foods are:

1. The more money you make, the more you vote republican. The less you make, the more you vote democrat.
2. The more taxes you pay, the more you vote republican. The less you pay, the more you vote democrat.
3. If you own a house, you vote republican more. If you don't own a house, you vote democrat more.
4. The more land you own, the more republican you vote. The less land you own, the more you vote democrat.
5. The less government services you need, the more you vote republican. The more government services you need, the more you vote democrat.

There's a good reason why Pew et al. rarely differentiate party affiliation by income level.

63% of voters earning under $15,000 vote Democrat.
63% of voters earning over $200,000 vote Republican.

If true, this implies that Democrat strongholds skew to less productive college graduates. They congregate in urban spaces just beyond smelling distance of the condensed low-income minority plantations they claim neo-feudalistic possession over.

I've always wondered how STEM and liberal-arts majors stratify politically.

[Bureaucat]

For those who have asked, here’s how counties with both a Cracker Barrel and a Whole Foods voted in 2020.

A tweet from Dave Wasserman of Cook Political:

For those asking, yes: I'm including counties with *both* stores in both columns. Here's the full breakdown by county type...Biden won:

- 95% of counties w/ just a Whole Foods
- 77% w/ both a Whole Foods & Cracker Barrel
- 18% w/ just a Cracker Barrel
- 12% w/ neither

Those counties with neither would be small and rural and Trump carried 88% of them.