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The Fertility Gap
Wall Street Journal Online ^ | August 22, 2006 | ARTHUR C. BROOKS

Posted on 08/22/2006 11:36:49 AM PDT by ritewingwarrior

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I sure hope this is correct. I remember some wacko liberal group that says that reproduction is bad for the planet and they all want to die to save the planet. Funny how all the welfare moms with 4-6 kids are really pulling up their average.
1 posted on 08/22/2006 11:36:49 AM PDT by ritewingwarrior
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All we have to do is get their vote and we're home free.


2 posted on 08/22/2006 11:37:37 AM PDT by Froufrou
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This is why they have to take over the schools and colleges. They need to reproduce through conversion.


4 posted on 08/22/2006 11:45:59 AM PDT by marsh_of_mists
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Good answer, I was about to say the same thing!


5 posted on 08/22/2006 11:48:43 AM PDT by CatoRenasci (Ceterum Censeo Arabiam Esse Delendam -- Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit)
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Already posted

here
6 posted on 08/22/2006 11:50:10 AM PDT by A Balrog of Morgoth (With fire, sword, and stinging whip I drive the RINOs in terror before me.)
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The "Baby Gap" (caused, in large part, by liberal abortion laws and attitudes) is essentially wiped away by the surge of unwashed masses into the country. The article mentions that, "A state that is currently 55-45 in favor of liberals (like California) will be 54-46 in favor of conservatives by 2020--and all for no other reason than babies." What the author neglects to mention is that California use to be predictably Republican in presidential elections. The Democrat won California only once between 1948 and 1988 (LBJ's landslide), but with Clinton's win in '92, California has become a safe blue state. By the theory of the "fertility gap," a safe Republican state in the late 20th Century like California should have increasingly turned to the right in recent elections, but this hasn't been the case. Part of the reason is that the nominally conservative parents of Baby Boomers have grown older and have begun to die off (that and unchecked illegal immigration). They've been replaced by their kids, raised in the 60s, and representing the attitudes of a self-indulgent generation (which happens to be my own). Our long-term hope probably lies in the children of aging hippies rebelling against the values, and politics, of their parents


7 posted on 08/22/2006 11:56:14 AM PDT by My2Cents (A pirate's life for me.)
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"This is why they have to take over the schools and colleges. They need to reproduce through conversion."

So they are like an evil version of the Shakers.


8 posted on 08/22/2006 12:08:17 PM PDT by BadAndy ("Loud mouth internet Rambo")
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If you look nationwide however, I believe you'll find that in their heyday (i.e. when most of them were still around) the Boomers' parents - the 'Greatest Generation' - was lopsidedly Democratic.

They might be socially conservative relative to subsequent generations, but they were very Democratic.

9 posted on 08/22/2006 12:08:53 PM PDT by Heatseeker
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Our long-term hope probably lies in the children of aging hippies

My daughters just laugh because almost all the anti-war protesters standing on corners have gray hair.

10 posted on 08/22/2006 12:13:35 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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Is it any wonder why the Democrats are supporting immigration from Mexico and amnesty for all. They hope to counter the liberal fertility problem by importing more future Mexicodemocrats.This way they can carry on with their socialist agenda.
11 posted on 08/22/2006 12:16:55 PM PDT by Courdeleon02
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[ Is it any wonder why the Democrats are supporting immigration from Mexico and amnesty for all. ]

Add the "White RINO House" to that list...

12 posted on 08/22/2006 12:28:08 PM PDT by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole.)
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By 1980, however, they were, in large part, "Reagan Democrats."


13 posted on 08/22/2006 12:32:04 PM PDT by My2Cents (A pirate's life for me.)
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Those are the people who inhaled.


14 posted on 08/22/2006 12:33:55 PM PDT by My2Cents (A pirate's life for me.)
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LOL!


15 posted on 08/22/2006 12:43:50 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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Like I tell liberals who all support abortion on demand while crying about lack of voter turnout (most of them do not get this line):

"You can not register fetal runoff to vote."

16 posted on 08/22/2006 4:57:00 PM PDT by new yorker 77 (FAKE POLLS DO NOT TRANSLATE INTO REAL VOTERS!)
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Some conservatives may not believe in evolution, but it doesn't mean they don't believe in natural selection.


17 posted on 08/22/2006 5:44:57 PM PDT by dr_who_2
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Liberals don't have a fertility problem. They have an abortion problem.


18 posted on 08/22/2006 5:53:44 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (The Internet is the samizdat of liberty..)
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Our long-term hope probably lies in the children of aging hippies rebelling against the values, and politics, of their parents

I'm seeing that at the university at which I teach. I'm the faculty advisor to the College Republicans. These kids are amazing. They come from very liberal homes (lots of them from liberal Hispanic homes) and they say, "All we did was follow the truth. And liberals don't tell the truth." These young people are one of the few things that give me hope in this sick, twisted, perverted world in which we find ourselves.

19 posted on 08/22/2006 8:11:16 PM PDT by BillaryBeGone
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"All we did was follow the truth. And liberals don't tell the truth."

Awesome. Thank you for the encouraging report.

20 posted on 08/23/2006 12:22:34 AM PDT by My2Cents (A pirate's life for me.)
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