Yeah the questions were strangely arbitrary and specific. The fishing question was limited to the last 5 years, so I got no points on that one despite the fact that I grew up going fishing and used to hunt quite a lot. But several questions (Ever lived around a bunch of dipshits? Ever have a moron for a friend?) were not time-limited, so I got points for spending my toddler years in the rust belt and hanging around with a bunch of neighborhood hoodlums 30+ years ago.
Also weird that it asked no questions about non-nuclear family. My dad was in management by the time I could understand what he did for a living. But I have a huge extended family and literally none of my grandparents or aunts / uncles had managerial or professional careers. And probably 50%+ of my cousins are blue collar working class.
But frankly the idea of a bubble is stupid and reeks of elite guilt. “You may think the views of rightwing rubes are ignorant and mean-spirited, but maybe you’d change your perspective if you hung out with losers and talked about Jimmie Johnson at the bait shop.” No, not really. I’ve spent plenty of time around angry right-wing rubes, including in church, at IHOP, and at the pond digging night crawlers out of a styrofoam cup. I’ve heard their opinions. I’ve even heard them try to justify those opinions. And it only confirmed my view that they’re ignorant and mean-spirited.
The problem isn’t that I haven’t seen their world. Fuck, I spent years in that world and came out the other side. The problem is that they’ve never seen anything but their own little world. It’s the rubes that live in a bubble, not those of us who have seen life in both rural dumbfuckville and more urbane corners of civilization and explicitly chose to stay in the latter.