Josh Rosenau Thinks that Southerners are Crazy

Josh Rosenau at Thoughts from Kansas relays the results of a new poll by Marcos Moulitsas, the runner of the Daily Kos, in which southerners poll differently from the rest of the nation in a question about date of the origin of the universe. The question was:

Most astronomers believe the universe formed about 13.7 billion years ago in a massive event called the Big Bang. Do you think that's about right or do think the universe was created much more recently?

Here are the results he got in a poll of 1200 people:

	RIGHT	RECENT	NOT SURE
All	62	25	13
Men	60	28	12
Women	64	22	14
Dem	71	17	12
Rep	44	38	18
Ind	66	23	11
White	58	27	15
Black	75	18	7
Latino	73	21	6
Oth/Ref	78	15	7
18-29	69	18	13
30-44	66	22	12
45-59	59	28	13
60+	56	31	13
NE	72	17	11
South	48	34	18
MW	64	24	12
West	69	21	10

The huge problem here, of course, is that even in the original poll on the Daily Kos site, "much more recently" is not defined and might mean different things to different people. Some might think it was created eight billion years ago, which is much more recent than 13.7. Some might subscribe to "last Thursday-ism" (appearance of age). Some might be young earth creationists. There is simply no way of knowing exactly what people think here. Is it bigger or smaller than a breadbox? This is very inexact. Southerners might be crazy, or they might not know what the poller means by the question.

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