Subaru legacy, one of the Left’s official vehicles.
“Subaru legacy, one of the Left’s official vehicles.”
I am in Tallahassee, which has two major universities and a number of smaller universities and community colleges. The federal, state, county and city governments are hosted here. The city has actively discouraged businesses from locating here, so the cars you see on the streets are almost entirely from the liberal classes. It seems every sixth car is a Subaru Legacy. Many of the students and lesser professors drive other model Subaru’s. I always read the inevitable bumper stickers. The stickers infest Subaru’s in a way they rarely do on other makes. I have never seen a conservative view or politician hosted on the back of a Subaru. Generally, they are about saving something...whales, endangered species, the planet, etc. Often, there is a Coexist sticker.
Funny story. There was a Subaru in the parking lot where I worked featuring a bumper sticker saying, “Free Tibet.” I talked to the owner and he went into a long diatribe over how he had chosen this statement over a save the environment sticker. It was a long and, to me, startling representation of the political thought that went into what statement he wanted the car to make about him. He didn’t want the sameness of all the other Subaru stickers to reflect on him. On questioning, he had no idea where Tibet was or why it needed freeing. (I managed not to laugh.)
Niteowl77 and I joke about being "stealth lesbians" because of our Subarus. To be honest, we avoided - maybe ignored is more accurate - the things for years because they were the butt (!) of so many jokes.
They do attract the crazies to some degree, though the locals here who are REALLY loons (the types with stickers that leapfrog lefttard and go right to the tipping point of insane) are usually not driving Subies, but some other SUV... Hyundais, Kias and Fords seem to predominate. We see relatively few such psychological warning labels on Hondas or Toyotas, even when they happen to be Priuses... which makes us wonder if that the Prius is simply just as popular with gas-miserly tightwads as it is with eco-nuts.
(At least in this area.)
One of the area's resident self-proclaimed wiccans drives a Chevy. That sort of thing makes for lousy memes.
Mr. niteowl77