{"id":14926,"date":"2014-06-10T11:21:05","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T15:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2014\/06\/10\/14926.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T19:10:11","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T00:10:11","slug":"in-a-name-in-a-name-in-a-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2014\/06\/10\/in-a-name-in-a-name-in-a-name\/","title":{"rendered":"In a name, in a name, in a name"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So, of all the goofy things lately, I have been spent time on the TargetSmart Communications widget looking up partisan identification by last name<\/a>. My own last name is reasonably common, with fourteen thousand or so party-identified folk, and unsurprisingly (to me) more than ten thousand are in My Party. That’s 72%, which is pretty good. My Best Reader, on the other hand, has fewer than four hundred fellows-of-the-surname, slightly more than half of whom are in the Other Party. Mildly amusing.\n

I wanted to know if that 72% was a serious outlier or just the natural result of a \"Jewish\" name. Let’s try Cohen—75%. Levy—74%. Goldberg—75%. Rubenstein—75%. Silberman—74%. Rosenzweig—74%. Hm. Now mine is looking a bit… bipartisan. Let’s try… O’Malley—57%. Oh, dear. Mahoney—57%. Connolly—57%. Shea—58%. Hmmm, hmm, hm. Cortez—80%. Rodriguez—80%. Martinez—81%. Perez—79% (but Peres only 63%).\n

OK, so here’s some trivia questions for y’all: Think of the Presidents in chronological order. The early Presidents’ surname-sharers are going to be overwhelmingly of My Party for reasons I hope will be obvious: Washington is 95%, and Jefferson is 89%, f’r’ex. So, without punching in the names into the widget, can you guess which is the (chronologically) first President whose current surname yields a majority from the Other Party? When do we first get two Presidents in a row over 50% red? Whose surname is the most likely to be in the Other Party? And who is the (chronologically) first President whose name is currently shared by fewer than a hundred registered voters, and thus does not yield an answer in the database at all?\n

Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,
-Vardibidian.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Which Your Humble Blogger is aware that the data is not so trustworthy as it might be, and therefore it’s not such a great trivia question as all that, but still wants to know your guesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navel-gazing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16543,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14926\/revisions\/16543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}