From Audible.com:
• Get a free subscription to the Wall Street Journal or the New York Times. Red State? Blue State? We got you covered.
Not quite. The WSJ is a Green state magazine that's largely read in the nation's bluest enclaves. According to their advertising statistics, California and New York alone account for over 566,000 of their subscriptions, 100,000 more than the entire Western region and almost exceeding the huge middle swath the Journal's demographers call "Central." The blueish Eastern region, for that matter, lays claim to over 800,000 subscribers, easily the most in the nation. So let's not be coy. So far as there's a red state/blue state divide, the question is cultural. And so far as those stereotypes hold, the affluent, sushi-eating, latte-drinking, Audi-driving readers of the Journal are simply coastal elites with much larger bank accounts. As I said, green-staters.
By the way: Anybody used Audible.com? I'm thinking of getting it for my subway commute. Yea? Nay?
