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The votes have been tallied and the results are in.

If you like Kenny Chesney and Atlas Shrugged, you’re more likely to vote for the GOP ticket next Tuesday. If you’re a fan of Maya Angelou, Adele, and Catcher in the Rye, then you will almost certainly pull the lever for Democrats.

Who says so? Facebook, that’s who.

Yesterday, Facebook data scientists revealed the results of their latest experiment, which compared people’s political preferences to their cultural ones. It’s a fascinating snapshot, but one with darker implications as to how big data can be used to predict human behavior.

First, Facebook collected data from everyone who indicated a preference for a Democratic or Republican candidate for the House, Senate, or governor by liking campaign pages. Researchers correlated that data to which authors, books, musicians, and TV shows these people also liked. They anonymized the data and then culled the top results in each category.

In the charts below, the items on the left are those disproportionately liked by Democrats; those on the right are preferred by Republicans. The names in the middle are liked more or less equally by both sides. The larger the name, the more Likes it received.

The results are pretty much what you might expect, but there are a few surprises.

Music

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It turns out the Fab Four are still more popular with the longhairs than with the crew-cuts more than 50 years after their debut. Democrats are also big fans of Bob Marley, aging rockers, and soul singers.

The Republican side is heavily dominated by country artists (and Nickelback — insert your own joke here). Splitting the difference are metal/hair bands; it appears that Metallica, AC/DC, and Aerosmith are the compromise candidates.

Authors

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Unlike the symmetrical butterfly-shaped music graph, the chart for authors leans heavily to the left. The most popular author among Republicans is Dr. Ben Carson, better known as a surgeon and Tea Party darling but also author of One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America’s Future.

William Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Hunter Thompson, Steven King and even Dr. Seuss are all more popular with Democrats, though none lean so far left as the late Maya Angelou.

Books

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