Sunday, May 4, 2008

So Woody Allen was destined to be a New Yorker

The Rise of the Creative Class author Richard Florida says people of like personalities congregate in regions of the US. So- natch- all the neurotics are in the Northeast.

But what about that blob in Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Arkansas? Call the the Fred Phelps-Sally Kerns Effect.

For all five of Florida's personality maps, click here.

We're still trying to figure out how we grew up in the South, moved to the Northwest, then came back to the South, given their apparently contradictory personality types:

'The South, and particularly the I-75 corridor, where so much Japanese and German car manufacturing is located, is dominated by agreeable and conscientious types who are both dutiful and work well in teams.The Northeast corridor, including Greater Boston, as well as San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Austin, are home to concentrations of open-to-experience types who are drawn to creative endeavor, innovation, and entrepreneurial start-up companies.'

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