I guess I'm in the minority here, since I'm the only one who said she didn't care who knows what my party affiliation is. It's part of who I am and I tend to be pretty out there with all such things.
But, back to the original question. Why are cyclists perceived as liberals?
This reminds me of something that happened in 1990, right after we moved back here. The schools were in bad shape, we lived in a small town on the NH border that had a reputation for being more blue collar than white. Many kids in town went to the Catholic school, and the public schools were notoriously underfunded. Here come my 2 little Jewish boys from Arizona... we got highly involved in an override vote for the schools and I wrote a letter to the regional newspaper saying something like "I would work 3 jobs to pay the extra tax money, so my kids could get a good education." Well, the next week I came home from work with my kids and put on the answering machine (back when you heard the message on a tape) and some woman was saying, "I have lived on your street for 30 years and we don't need you RICH LIBERAL snobs, so why don't you get the hell out of town?"
That was really nice for my 5 and 8 year old to hear.
My older son still has the tape and we play it every so often to laugh.