Cyclists are liberals?! (Retry)

[Mr. Bloom]

I was originally thinking that there are plenty of conservative businessmen (for instance) who buy super-expensive bikes but would classify themselves as conservative.

I resemble that remark

But, I believe that at the core of all widespread conservation lies an economic justification, not a political leaning.

Using this as simply one issue, I support energy conservation because I believe it's in our national interests...in fact, I support higher energy prices to create the stimulus to change behavior. Some might find my support of 'free markets' unconscionable, but our objective is the same even if our means to the end are different...

So, this is why I dislike political labels...and try to avoid characterizing people based on them.

I believe in the US, they're called Libertarians (although the Libertarian party is probably more socially liberal.)

I definitely don't resemble that remark

[Crankin]

Well, thinking about some of the comments my husband and son used to get while riding (always from guys in pick ups) maybe cyclists are perceived as liberals because the males aren't afraid to wear lycra? I mean, this is a big thing for some. Of course, my husband gets made fun of for wearing capris and having a polka dot umbrella by some of the sales guys at his company. According to him, they are the only conservatives there.

[VeloVT]

Yeah Crankin, at the time we thought that the Lycra might have something to do with it too, unfortunately. He was riding in front, and I am not well endowed/do not have long hair, and might have been mistaken for a boy at a passing glance, with helmet, sunglasses etc.

I wish people were not so hateful.

[Aggie_Ama]

My car is a confusing one to label. I have a "Please be kind to cyclists" bumper sticker automatically labeling me as a liberal to many, yes I have exactly that yelled at me while riding. I have also been called a tree hugging hippie but I like trees and when mountain biking I even hug them some. I don't think I am a hippie but they seem okay so I guess I could be called worse!

Then I have a "Texas A&M Association of Former Students Century Club Member" sticker. A&M is known as the most conservative (or if you talk those hippies in Austin- redneck) public school in Texas. For pete's sake George Bush (the first one) chose to put his library there. So what am I?

[shootingstar]

Use of the Internet at least requires basic literacy of reading and writing. But methinks, that demographics of Internet use has broadened.

Some major North American sources. First 2 resources are one of the best for generic Internet use analyses in North America to begin research.


http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/c/2/topics.asp

http://www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/080612/d080612b.htm Statistics Canada is a federal govn't agency. They do annual surveys on Internet use habits of Canadians.

Not sure about the quality of this mega-site. Harder to get a grip on their data collection methods.
http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats14.htm