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Married Americans Are Different
American Conservative ^ | 2/15/2021 | Samuel Abrams

Posted on 02/16/2021 8:40:09 AM PST by Onthebrink

As political scientists, pundits, and historians try to make sense of the November 2020 election, a marriage divide in the electorate has emerged. Married Americans were appreciably more likely to vote for Trump than those who were either unmarried and cohabiting or single. As reported last week in TAC, Peyton Roth and W. Bradford Wilcox recently found that marriage was one of the strongest predictors of Republican voting in 2020. But such a discovery does not mean that married Americans are solely extreme Trump supporters, are ideologically monolithic, or have negative Trumpian views about the nation’s future whatsoever.

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TOPICS: Education; Government; History
KEYWORDS: culture; family; marriage

1 posted on 02/16/2021 8:40:09 AM PST by Onthebrink
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To: Onthebrink

It’s why they are trying to destroy the traditional family.


2 posted on 02/16/2021 8:45:07 AM PST by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack )
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To: Onthebrink

The poor and on-college educated generally don’t get married in 21st century America due to the lack of marriageable partners in those demos.


3 posted on 02/16/2021 8:46:27 AM PST by Clemenza
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To: Onthebrink

Most married people have children and look past the now and into the future of their children. Singles do not. Singles need something to cling to and this tends to be “causes.”


4 posted on 02/16/2021 8:48:43 AM PST by bravo whiskey (Count Rostov "The tyranny of indistinguishable days.")
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