I thoroughly enjoyed Renee DiResta's Map of American Stereotypes Generated by Google Autocomplete, which my former Stanford Daily colleague Will Oremus featured on Slate. DiResta's idea was beautifully simple: Type "Why is [State] so" into Google and let autocomplete do the rest.
Why is California so liberal, broke, anti-gun and expensive? Why is Kentucky so good at basketball, poor, boring and racist? Why is Virginia so boring, humid, strict and important?
Why don't I do this with the Pac-12?! Enjoy and feel free to share your own in the comments.
ARIZONA
Rich Rodriguez is:
- an offensive genius
- fired
- hispanic
- mexican
Tucson is:
- in what county
- in what time zone
- awesome
- ghetto
- boring
- a dump
ARIZONA STATE
Todd Graham is:
- a scumbag
- a douchebag
- a liar
CAL
Cal:
- ripken jr
- ripken league
- poly
- tech
Berkeley is:
- in what county
- better than stanford
- so hard
- my baby lyrics
COLORADO
Boulder is:
- for startups
- burning
- for startups infographic
- for robots
OREGON
Chip Kelly is:
- a douche
- a jerk
- a cheater
- a douchebag
- arrogant
- toast
- a riverboat gambler
- he married
- an idiot
OREGON STATE
Beavers are:
- fish
- herbivores
- cute
- like ninjas
STANFORD
Andrew Luck is:
- overrated
- a nerd
- a bust
- going to be a bust
- gay
- ugly
- a senior
- from
- good
- a senior
Why is Stanford:
- called the farm
- so great
- university's mascot a tree
- called the cardinal
- a good school
UCLA
Jim Mora Jr. is:
- a jerk
- an idiot
Why is UCLA:
- so hard to get into
- better than usc
- the bruins
- so expensive
USC
Matt Barkley is:
- overrated
- a christian
- adopted
- a mormon
- gay
- hot
- a douche
- staying
- a tool
- stupid
Lane Kiffin is:
- a douche
- the sexiest woman alive
- a weasel
UTAH
Why is Utah so:
- weird
- conservative
- salty
WASHINGTON
Steve Sarkisian is:
- a jerk
- bark
- woof
- lyrics
- mama
WASHINGTON STATE
Mike Leach is:
- suspended
- fired
- a pirate
- mormon
- a lawyer
- weird
- crazy
- thinking
- a drunk
- an idiot