Do You Eat Republican Cheese?

America’s red-blue split is partisan, it’s geographical, and it also divides us in ways we don’t think about—like our taste in processed meat.

With survey data from Simmons Research, Politico Magazine indexed the top “liberal” and “conservative” brands across 36 categories, determining where each group’s consumer preferences diverge most from the average American adult’s.

Here’s how the chart works: The “100” line marks a midpoint. An index score of 150 on the conservative side, for example, means self-identified conservatives are 50 percent more likely to prefer..
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