Why are all those red names so utterly horrible?
Are you seriously calling your boy Gunner? Why not… idk… Carpet? Or Computer? Or Bottle?
They’re riffing off of traditional masculine naming conventions. Gunner is associated with the traditional male role of aggressor (compare, Hunter, Victor, Dominic), and is also a job (compare, Carter, Taylor, Mason).
Honestly, I think it’ll age better than Baylor or Kyson.
My half-brother is named Ranger. 🙄
Please tell me he lives in Texas
I mean… I get it. But in a country where mass shootings are the norm, calling your son gunner is… a bit out of touch?
Baylor on the other hand is just plain horrible.
It’s a cultural thing. In some red areas guns are seen as a cultural signifier. It’s straight up the same as naming a kid Christian or after a virtue or any other name that’s on the nose religious, but with rural cultural values instead of just Christian ones.
I mean, a gunner is a job in the military. Not much different than naming your kid Gunars, which means warrior. Gunman would be more on the nose. I’m just saying, when I hear Gunner’s mom yelling at him not to spill his soda in the car in the grocery store parking lot in 15 years, I’ll be like, “yep, that’s a normal name.”
Also, mass shootings arent the norm. They are extremely rare.
But yes, naming your kid “gun” to “own the libs” is indeed cringe as fuck.
Naming your kid after a job is cringe.
Naming your kid Taylor is cringe
agreed
Yeah, ‘a bit out of touch’ is a good starting point when talking about conservatives usually…
hey, Baylor is a good hard-working children’s name
those hay bales won’t make themselves once all the farm hands are in concentration camps
I assume it’s just an alternate (i.e. made up) spelling of Gunnar which is a Scandinavian name. I knew I guy named Gunnar once.
Gunner is 100% a common dog’s name, often given to gun dogs. I feel sorry for those kids.
Baylor sounds like a low level boss that you have to fight to finish the tutorial.
On the other hand, Baylor, Tripp, Briggs, Hattie, Gracelynn, and Wrenly sound amazing
Imagine your statement, but change red to blue.
Would that be okay to say?
Yes! Absolutely yes! Gunner is a horrible name, as is Baylor. If you think this is political, that’s your problem. It’s not my fault if the most horrible names are mostly red.
The point being names are just names.
And your opinion is just yours.
Try to be nicer, and you may end up happier for it.
You’re not wrong, but that’s a weird hill to defend.
Did you call your kid Gunner or are you just trying to get offended on the internet?
And what’s wrong with the name Gunnar?
It’s a Germanic/Norse name that’s been in use for thousands of years, but some ignorant American thinks it’s horrible and needs to go?
I said Gunner, not Gunnar, but go on, I guess?
Edit: bonus point for calling me “ignorant american” when I’m not from that continent.
Gunner is the anglicised version of Gunnar champ.
So use Gunnar instead, champ. Using a name so linked to guns in a country with such a problem with guns is out of touch and cringe.
Also, champ, can I dislike a name or are you going to tell me what to think? Is your name gunnar and you feel offended because an internet stranger doesn’t like the american version of it, champ?
Conservatives are not broadly known for their creativity.
Lol @ Stetson
Red state baby girls be named after Guy Fieri’s wraparound sunglasses.
What i learn from this is that there are a lot of Muslims in blue states and that everyone is naming their daughters some variation of Oakley in red states.
You mean Oackleiygh
Four different versions of shitty overpriced sunglasses favored by insecure man children? That tracks.
I wish they had name counts. I’m curious if there are like seven of each or seven thousand.
All those red names remind me of r/tragedeigh on Reddit.
My first thought exactly
So this is just binary red/blue? Seems iffy given how diverse states are (eg there are about as many Republican voters in “blue” California or in “red” Florida because California is way larger). I wonder what this would look like at the county level…
Comparing states without county-level resolution is mostly useless. Had several people a few threads ago say Illinois is progressive. No, Chicagoland is progressive, rest of the state is almost all red.
These maps are totally misleading as all that red area is just mostly uninhabited, empty land.
I know, these are largely population maps, but they go to show that even Mississippians are plenty blue, they’re just outnumbered.
Florida is less deep red than I would have expected.
There’s a ton of snowbirds from New England there.
Aidan?
I’d assume that someone named Hattie has stories about living through the Great Depression.
You’d be correct
I wonder if I’m going to live long enough to see Gladys and Eustice and Eugene and such like that come back. When I’m 70 meet some teenager named Plutis.
not yet. but don’t you worry, they will.
So…
I think what you’re trying to show is what names skew the most to red/blue?
But that’s not what the title says or the chart is labeled as…
Lead poisoning leads to some dumb names
I wish that was all the negative consequences it lead to, instead of well…
*gestures broadly*
Stetson - cowboy hats.
Briggs (& Stratton) - outboard motors.
Oakley (in three different spellings) - redneck eyewear of choice.Conservatives are one generation away from naming their kids shit like Winchester, Remington, Walmart, and Budlight.
That’s why I used Muhammad on my fake ID.
Was it between that and McLovin?
So the bluer names are ethnic and the redder names are terrible. Interesting trend.
Specifically ethnicities that tend to have bigger families too.
Three Catholics that used to pump up blue numbers are all conservatives now.
