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To: Maelstorm
I wrote about this extensively on another post. That is a huge mistake because sociological evidence shows that people get more conservative relative to the culture not in an absolute sense as they get older. In other words, a radical liberal was one who believed in freeing the slaves in their 20's. The fact that they didn't believe in women voting in their 80's meant they were a staunch conservative because the culture had changed around them.

Today's "conservative" elderly voters are the same people that would be considered crazy liberals by their grandparents' standards. They have probably gotten divorced, accept their social security checks, gamble at the riverboat (the biggest demographic for casinos), and listen to rock 'n roll.

Society very, very rarely grows more conservative in an absolute sense. That's why I said to think otherwise is to live in a fool's paradise. The same people used that argument to believe that someday, the younger voters would realize women working was a bad idea or that blacks and whites shouldn't get married. It's faulty logic. People's beliefs get more ingrained as they get older, not less.

35 posted on 11/01/2009 4:09:26 PM PST by WallStreetCapitalist
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To: WallStreetCapitalist
I wrote about this extensively on another post.

Yes, evidence of that insular, self-referential cult I wrote about earlier...

37 posted on 11/01/2009 4:17:38 PM PST by Sir Francis Dashwood (Arjuna, why have you have dropped your bow???)
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