For one thing, there are a lot of Ugg boots, for another a lot shady real estate and investment deals.
But my favorite parallel is the lifestyle magazines in both places:
Bend Living and Newport Living.
(For the Bend media-niks out there, the subhed to this post is: ‘Kevin Max and Julie Cooper — separated at birth?’)
Maybe its not a good idea for Barack Obama to be the next Chuck Norris.