A Spanish conservative friend of mine said to me recently, “You are really a European conservative.” We talked about that, and I ended up agreeing with him. I’m very conservative socially, but I am in principle more in favor of the state than most American conservatives — not because I’m a liberal, but because of the kind of conservative I am. Hungary’s Viktor Orban has described his own politics as Christian Democrat, but from the days when the Christian Democrats were actually Christians. I guess that’s me.

Well, here’s some evidence that my Spanish friend was right. I took this New York Times quiz — twenty questions that map you onto a grid of American politics:

As you can see, no major political grouping in the US occupies my space. The closest one is the Patriot Party, described like this by the Times:

The Patriot Party is the party of Donald Trump’s 2016 primary campaign: the coalition of the small town, white working-class Americans who feel left behind by globalism and condescended to by cosmopolitanism. It is economically populist and strongly anti-immigration. Its strongest support among lower-income conservatives comes from exurban America.

Its potential leaders include Josh Hawley, Tom Cotton and Tucker Carlson. Based on data from the Democracy Fund’s VOTER survey, this party would be the best fit for about 14 percent of the electorate.

Yes, I would have been enthusiastically pro-Trump, had I thought Trump was competent and morally sound.

Here are the Patriot Party demographics:

So I’m a traitor to my educational and economic class.

Take the quiz yourself, and in the comments section, tell us how you scored. Are you surprised? I was surprised to be rated so far to the left on economics, frankly.

UPDATE: Fellow inhabitant of the Forbidden Quadrant:

Boy there sure seems to be a whole entire quadrant with more people in it than in the corresponding diagonal quadrant that doesn’t even get an imaginary political party according to the good ol New York Times pic.twitter.com/qgNfUeYn1A

— ???????? ????? (@suzania) September 8, 2021

There is an actual political party for people like us: the American Solidarity Party.

UPDATE.2: Gosh, it’s starting to look like a lot of my IRL friends are here:

Ah, a quadrant of my own: https://t.co/E4Rz87quMt pic.twitter.com/Oy3kIehjFS

— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) September 8, 2021