Posted on 09/26/2017 10:50:02 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
As a visitor to the USA, one sometimes gets the feeling that it’s hard to move or look around without seeing a flag. They are seemingly everywhere, an omnipresent reminder of national identity. But the star-spangled banner is more than a symbol; it can also influence minds in unexpected ways. Travis Carter from the University of Chicago has found that when people think about voting decisions, the mere sight of the American flag can subtly shift their political views… towards Republicanism. It’s an effect that holds in both Democrats and Republicans, it affects actual votes, and it lasts for at least 8 months.
In the run-up to the 2008 US presidential election, Carter recruited a group of around 200 volunteers and asked them about their political views. A month or so later, he split them into two groups that were comparable in terms of their political beliefs, voting intentions and other variables. Both groups rated how likely they were to vote for either the Democrat Barack Obama or the Republican John McCain on an online questionnaire. The questionnaires were identical except for one small detail – in the top left corner of the screen, one group saw a small American flag and the other saw nothing.
That tiny difference was enough to swing their voting preferences. Carter found that the volunteers who saw the tiny flag became more likely to vote for McCain than Obama (relative to their answers at the start of the experiment). They claimed to feel more positive towards the Republicans and even when Carter tested their unconscious atittudes, a small Republican bias still came through.
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It always struck me as odd that Democrat candidates pose with the American flag.
It’s incongruous.
Just wait....
Leni
No wonder Leftists hate the flag! ‘All this for a damn flag’......Moochie at a 9/11 Rembrandt service. Republicans are the only ones who stand for patriotism and the good in this country. Period.
So put flag outside every polling place and play the “stars and stripes forever” on speakers.
Right, did he control for other things such as media coverage during the same time?
The Hammer & Sickle would be too revealing (Democrats).
You seem to be implying that the fakestream presstitutes cover Republicans objectively.
That never happens.
you took the words right out of my mouth, was thinking the very same thing, when will it start.
If you walk up and get in line at the voting place and the guy in front of you Is wearing a T shirt with the American Flag on it, what would be the chances your mind says, he is going to vote democrat? LOL never
No, I am saying the conclusion that the change in voting preference being directly attributed to the display of the US Flag is false.
Yes, exactly.
Can’t have any patriotism for our country, or our nation’s history, now, can we?
The War of 1812
Although its events inspired one of the nation’s most famous patriotic songs, the War of 1812 is a relatively little-known war in American history. Despite its complicated causes and inconclusive outcome, the conflict helped establish the credibility of the young United States among other nations. It fostered a strong sense of national pride among the American people, and those patriotic feelings are reflected and preserved in the song we know today as the U.S. national anthem.
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America’s future seemed more uncertain than ever as the British set their sights on Baltimore, Maryland, a vital seaport. On September 13, 1814, British warships began firing bombs and rockets on Fort McHenry, which protected the city’s harbor. The bombardment continued for twenty-five hours while the nation awaited news of Baltimore’s fate.
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A Moment of Triumph
Then in that hour of deliverance and joyful triumph, my heart spoke.
—Francis Scott Key recalling the morning of September 14, 1814
By the “dawn’s early light” of September 14, 1814, Francis Scott Key, who was aboard a ship several miles distant, could just make out an American flag waving above Fort McHenry. British ships were withdrawing from Baltimore, and Key realized that the United States had survived the battle and stopped the enemy advance. Moved by the sight, he wrote a song celebrating “that star-spangled banner” as a symbol of America’s triumph and endurance.
http://amhistory.si.edu/starspangledbanner/the-war-of-1812.aspx
The Star Spangled Banner
Oh, say can you see by the dawn’s early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
‘Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more!
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps’ pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war’s desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav’n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: “In God is our trust.”
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
It doesn’t matter whether it’s true or not.
All that matters is that Democrats/BLM think it’s true.
Exactly the point. This study must be refuted for that reason.
Democrats award PhDs for believing things that aren’t true, so good luck with that.
Leftists hate the flag.
Remember Barack’s best friend Bill Ayers.
So now HilLIARy can blame her loss on the American flag. I thought she was blaming it on “The Russians.” She needs a mirror to see, find the reason she lost.
What's the difference between McC and Obungler ?
They are both DemocRATS !
One is white, the other is almost black; therefore it shows racism .../s
They have nothing to say when the leftards sway ISIS,Anarchy,Antifa,Soviet,Hezbollah,Mexican and other anti-American flags. They can FOAD. They really do not want to go down the road they are so confident to be pushing.
When one thinks of our flag, one thinks of what is best for the country. When one ignores things like the flag, one is more likely to be narrow minded about what is best for me.
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