11-20 for me.

The Worlds gone nuts.
They allow Children to be groped by adult strangers by TSA agents in airports. Arrest 6 year olds for sexual assault in a playground. I,m praying to for the big one to flush California.
Its one turd I,m tired of seeing everyday.

Hercules Family Battles Sex Assault Claim Against 6-Year-Old

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2012/01/27/hercules-family-battles-playground-sex-assault-claim-against-6-year-old/

15 - must not vote Democrat...

10 out of 20 for me, but what a dumb quiz!

Tee-hee...

I scored 13-16 on the quiz. No Starbucks prize for me I guess.

16 on the test - story of my life: C+

I only scored six. I hope I will be allowed to continue reading this blog.

I turned my amp to 11

I got 13 too. Watcha doin' tonight, Cutie?

13 for me, and damn proud of it!

I guess I win!

Now Pay up!

12...I too have no bubble...damn collecting bubbles is very important to me.

8 - I'll have a half-caf soy liberal latta-chino with two pumps of peppermint. No whip please, I'm trying to lose weight.

http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/usercertificate.php?id=20322361&qid=320064

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Darn. I've completed the test multiple times now, but when I click "next" under "How Thick Is Your Bubble" it just…hangs. Anyone else?

Maybe the server is labouring under an SDA-alanche.

Neuf pour moi

I don't have a bubble :(

Just 4 for me. I've got a friend who once shushed me with a claim I was too "white bread". Seems she was right.

I scored 17 out of 20 , but had to fib a bit about eating in an American Steakhouse .... I ate in a Canadian one so I answered yes.

@Arnie I had to really cheat and count having a bagel at the TGI Fridays on a layover in Winnipeg's airport as having eaten at one to get my 8, even. Shh, don't tell anyone.

12 for me.
I suspect I could have done better if I went out and killed a wild animal more recently or owned a pickup truck instead of an SUV...
Gee, these kinds of surveys are so dang precise./

65%

Nine.

7 for me.

but some of those questions...

(14/20)

Apparently I don't even have a bubble!

11-20............I really liked the pickup.
Chrome wheels and all..... 'cept it was a GMC.
I can't help it, I love to drink Heineken.

13 for me - I would have had 12 if I didn't hang out with smokers, I am a smoker so I am one of those that 'proper' people avoid.

Is 13 a lucky number?

12 out of 20.
No bubble.
I mingle a lot.

The test crashed on me at about the halfway mark.   I blame Kate and her SDA-launch!    ;-)

No bubble -- I think the fishing, uniforms and armed forces pulled me through.

13 for me. I would have done better if I had I shown a greater appreciation for Oprah.

I was hoping for a bubble...sol

10
Watching Oprah all the way thru deserves a handicapped parking sticker,,, not me!
(flunked out on the beer one too,,, can you still buy Schlitz?)

8. The quiz is Americanocentric and therefore racist. Hah!

5 - it says I need to get out more. I agree.

14 Rules!! No Ghey bubble for me!!

11... I guess i need to go to more parades.

The only high school friend unlikely to do better than a C average was my bodyguard.

11 sure glad I drink beer and hunt in my F150.

I guess it must not be available outside the Western Colonies, that or you crashed the quiz.

I have no bubble. Is that good or bad?

I scored between 13 and 16 (not quite sure how the scoring works). Whenever Oprah comes on TV I leave the room. Have no idea about the movie since the last movie I saw in a theater was Jurassic Park. Since I don't watch TV or have cable have no idea about NASCAR but did go to the Molson Indie in Vancouver twice. I must not be a very good member of the "cognitive elite" without a bubble.

17. Idon't even have a bubble!(whatever the frack that means).Guess I need to watch Oprah and participate in her queer agenda more?Ummmm.NOT

Scored an 8 but as part of the explanation it claimed I scored between 9 and 12. Liberal math.

17, test told me to go visit the bubble, ummmm no thanks.

17 here. I guess I didn't get out much...

13 as well, but this quiz is NOT even remotely a valid cultural assessment. Instead, it is more like a parody of what the Left thinks American culture is.

I had to turn 'cookies' on in my browser to get the results but that's to be expected with quizzes that carry your responses over from page to page...

apparently, with a 16, I "need to visit the bubble more often"...I think I like it quite well on the outside, in 'the mainstream' especially if it means I don't have to watch oprah...and I agree that the questions themselves are sort of 'classist' and little more than a list of 'redneck' stereotypes and moonbat icons...

yes, I rode on a bus...40 years ago...how does that equate to anything I've done or become since ?

I have never watched Oprah and know nothing about NASCAR. I love my beer, but I don't drink mass market domestic brands. I have however served in the armed forces, worked in factories, had jobs that leave me tired at the end of the day, fished and hunted and don't know anyone who smokes. As a result of this I scored a 9.

I don't think the fishing and hunting is a good question to separate the red necks from the elite. The hunting could be driven pheasant on an estate or it could be jack lighting deer in Tennessee. Fishing could be fly fishing for trout in Wyoming or bass fishing in the back woods of Florida.

Kate.

I feel as though I have been disfranchised by this test and should be graded on a curve.

A curvy 8 would be nice.

I got a "no bubble" score but I cheated a bit. For example, mass market beer in the last five years? Well, no beer at all in recent years, but over a lifetime I can match anybody gallon for gallon, vat for vat, mass market or anything else I fancied.
And i never had a pickup truck, but I gave myself a yes because I drove a Ford Ranchero when I lived in Sask. Come to think of it, living in Saskatchewan is a bubble breaker - that's a compliment, folks.

scored a 12

13-16 here, no bubble.

8-is that good or bad? I am confused.

The test seems to only want affirmation of ones affinity to stereotype of what Hollywood sees. Not one question about the root causes of the decline.

Yeah, apparently I'm in the bubble, but not so deep I can't see out of it.

I dislike cheap beer and have a non-north american background which I think skews me into the bubble more than I really am based on 20 questions.

Interesting questions though.

How endearing: Having scored between 9 and 12 (I got a 9), I've been told that " ... even if you're part of the new upper class, you've had a lot of exposure to the rest of America."

See, I'm open, tolerant, and inclusive -- "exposure to the rest of America" -- so what's my prize?

15 for me!! No bubble, no trouble.

And I need to ask a@c: first, I hope you are not drinking beer and hunting in your F150 at the same time, and second, what the h-e-duble hockey sticks you doin' up at 3.39 am?
'Round here it's barely light enough to shoot. And when you put your beer down, it's too dark to find it back...

5 for me - would have been worse except for my early days when I worked in a mine and smelter for INCO. Must watch NASCAR and eat in crappy chain restaurants more often.

I scored 6, but, even though I don't actually “do” what a lot of this quiz seems to relegate to “another America” (I think hunting, fishing, and pickups are A-OK), I think like one—well, except for the Oprah and movie part! That said, I’m a total anomaly from most of my family and a large number of my friends. Fortunately, because I’m an observant (not a “social justice”) Christian, as well as pro-life, I also have many friends who share my outlook.

(I guess I cheated on the quiz too, re the smoking question: I said YES because I had tea with a favourite aunt, who smokes—and whom I see quite often—in her well-appointed living room . . . We also give her an ashtray—the only one we have left—and let her smoke in our living room, or anywhere else in our house.)

I don’t think the quiz measured what it says it does. I think it might have been better to gauge people’s reactions to the subject matter. I’m not working class, but I know and admire people who’ve done a lot of the things in the quiz, I guess because, (for me) by the grace of God, I’m a “flyover” kind of gal. I altogether agree with Charles Murray on what’s going on. But one doesn’t have to actually do the things in this quiz to revere “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”, free enterprise, and the greatness of the USA.

It’s the divisive, envy- and disdain-producing ideologies of “equality” and multiculturalism—both altogether poisonous and deconstructionist—that are tearing people and communities apart: the divide between the working and professional classes has largely been engineered by the rabidly secular, Alinskyite progressives in our educational (and many other) institutions, who’ve turned the rule of law upside down. And who’s fallen for this scam, hook, line, and sinker? Not “those stupid red necks”. No, it’s the “smarties” who’ve abandoned reason, truth, and justice. Ironic, eh?

God bless America!

14 for the Texas Canuck, although a few years ago I would have scored points for hunting and fishing. Seems like sailing has taken over my summers of late. I also like the local or craft beers for flavour as well as supporting the little guy but I will not turn away almost any beer offered.

12 WTFs wrong with me?

Yeah, apparently I'm in the bubble, but not so deep I can't see out of it.

I dislike cheap beer and have a non-north american background which I think skews me into the bubble more than I really am based on 20 questions.

Interesting questions though.

8... although in the Canadian equivalent, say BPs instead of Applebees, it would have been higher. If I would have taken this 10 years ago, my score probably would have been closer to a 15. However, something happened since then - I grew up.

10, but I answered no for a couple that would be yes if the Canadian equivalents were included.

I scored 13. Never owned a pickup truck, but I have owned a van.

Now, does a mandatory hardhat, steel-toes and work gloves constitute a "uniform"? I almost answered "yes" on that one.

I would never be without my pickup (spent my career in a plant that built them), and I've shared moonshine in the parking lot of the Martinsville race, but I guess hunting fox and coyote from the back of a horse is a tad elitist.

It's rigged. It didn't ask if I read Proust or grew my own food.

Here's Murray's version of the quiz. It's better: somewhat more subtle; allows finer gradations of "hickitude"; etc.

I got 14 because I don't care about NASCAR roundy-round racing. But I do know who Robby Gordon is due to his Monster Racing team in Baja.

So no, I have no bubble, thank Jebus... (oh wait...)

10 out of 20..well no bubble for moi.."bubble ..bubble, toil and trouble "..

10.....but I get around.

And no fair on Oprah. Yes, I have watched it thru, but.......over 10 years ago. Like Loki, when she's on, I find another room.

And that goes for her acolytes as well, that counselling whore, Dr Phil (repulsive) and Dr Oz.

Blech. Can't stand it when my wife says, "Well Dr Phil said...".....

13 for me too.

Um, 9 for this cat. Thankyou Pilsner, Remington, F150.

4 for me. How is high disengagement from their mainstream culture a bad thing?

12, but I've never been to a parade.

Scratch that, I've been to 2; and still no gay/ global warming/anti-military protesting.

60 on Murphy's version.

54 me, Lloyd. That 60 means that wherever you go is "flyover country"!

got a 12

If you're not American, you have to lie. If you don't smoke, drink, eat at overpriced craptaculous restaurants or give a rat's rectum about NASCAR, or have any use for a pickup truck, well... forget about it.

60 seconds of my life I'll never get back... What a useless exercise.

Got 11 out of 20...even though I own 3 pick-ups...guess that many makes me an elite red-neck.

: catch22 at January 28, 2012 12:53 AM

White bread??

Geeze I'd be mad as hell over that one....

that test was BS. For one thing, it relies on having close friends. As a real man who did not serve in the armed forces during a war, I have NO CLOSE friends. Thus my score was lowerr than it ought to have been.

Also, where are the questions like: do you know how to operate a back-hoe? Or are you aware that a 'sled' is actually a snowmobile? or Have you ever siphoned fuel? If buying a pickup is a sign that you may be in touch with the working class then how come a truck driving red neck farmer like me got a 12? Jeesus mary and joseph! I am an elitist!

Too old for the army, never been bored enough to watch Oprah, and my buddy voted for McGuinty and I still talk to him.

79 on Murray's version.

Growing up in a mining town will greatly affect your score.

14. Thank God for my humble background and that most of my friends still smoke.

11 for me. Serving in the Armed Forces and, naturally, wearing a uniform gave me two points. Dragging my backside out of an aeroplane after 11 hours gave another (sore) point... But NASCAR, crappy movies and Oprah? Weird survey.

I don't have a bubble, but I do have a fishing pole, a pickup truck and a pack of smokes.

Ghost of Ed :You forgot the beer.

3 out of 20, but it's my damned bubble, I'm very comfomfortable with it and intend to keep it that way thank you.

I think the hunting, fishing and pickup truck puts me on the so called mainstream scale. The fact that I don't owe a dime or any favors to anyone in the world, not so much.

"On a scale from 0 to 20 points, where 20 signifies full engagement with mainstream American culture and 0 signifies deep cultural isolation within the new upper class bubble, you scored between 0 and 4."

5 out of 20

The quiz needs work. Its conclusions are flawed something fierce.

If watching Oprah qualify you for anything other than warm and fuzzy, the suggestion would be, you get some life before you kick the bucket.

So not watching Oprah or going to a silly movie or following NASCAR or drinking lousy beer means you live in a bubble? Bubble on I say. I'd rather scratch out both eyes than watch Oprah. Movies aren't worth going to see, NASCAR is boring and most domestic American beer is good only for those who don't want to get drunk but do want to go pee a lot.

6, and even then I kind of cheated because I've never lived in an American city (unless you say "well technically, the whole continent is 'America', including Mexico" - but really, who thinks like that?). At any rate I am clearly too toney for most of you and I hope you are grateful that I'm slumming here rather than at, say, HuffPo.

most domestic American beer is good only for those who don't want to get drunk but do want to go pee a lot.

Posted by: Joe at January 28, 2012 8:53 PM

Yup, fairy pee. And Canadians can't get enough of it.

I got a 17. My husband owns a GMC truck like the one in the photo. And I'm watching the X-games tonight too, a local snowboarder has ridden to 2 gold medals in 2 days. At least my red neck is pretty.

Q: How is American beer like intercourse in a canoe?

A: They're both f*(king close to water.

Went to the link with the book quiz and scored 47. That's probably more as a result of my growing up in a very small town and liking to eat at places like Denny's. Typical problems with a quiz where one attempts to sum incommesurate quantities. I scored 1 point for having watched an episdoe of Judge Judy all the way through. Anyway, it puts me more towards the redneck end of the spectrum which is where I figure I belong anyway.