[JD86]

Maybe it is more that married women tend to be more conservative (by definition...they are married) and single women tend to be more liberal...also single women (never married) tend to be younger...and more liberal...as we all grow up and get our hormones under control, we have more sense...and become more conservative.

[joathome]

"as we all grow up and get our hormones under control, we have more sense...and become more conservative."

Ahhhhhh......but we have always had liberals, and now we have even more liberals because it's taking the rugrats longer and longer to grow up.

Goodness, most of the THIRTY-SOMETHING GUYS that my husband works with are single, and have no plans on marrying. Actually, a couple do. When they find the right woman who makes as much as they do. She also "has" to keep working. They'll "think about" kids. Seriously.

[ffrancone]

also single women (never married) tend to be younger...and more liberal...as we all grow up and get our hormones under control, we have more sense...and become more conservative.

Churchill is reputed to have said: "if you are 18 and a conservative, you have no heart. if you are 30 and liberal, you have no brain." (paraphasing the great man)

So this makes me heartless but not brainless.

[TopQuark]

Maybe it is more that married women tend to be more conservative (by definition...they are married) and single women tend to be more liberal...also single women (never married) tend to be younger...and more liberal...as we all grow up and get our hormones under control, we have more sense...and become more conservative.

Everything you said was in place before 1980, too? Why did we not see this phenomenon then?