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  • What Makes People Vote Republican (Good Article From A Lib Alert)

    09/12/2008 11:38:39 AM PDT · by goldstategop · 62 replies · 1,121+ views
    Edge - Third Culture ^ | 9/09/2008 | Jonathan Haidt
    WHAT MAKES PEOPLE VOTE REPUBLICAN? What makes people vote Republican? Why in particular do working class and rural Americans usually vote for pro-business Republicans when their economic interests would seem better served by Democratic policies? We psychologists have been examining the origins of ideology ever since Hitler sent us Germany's best psychologists, and we long ago reported that strict parenting and a variety of personal insecurities work together to turn people against liberalism, diversity, and progress. But now that we can map the brains, genes, and unconscious attitudes of conservatives, we have refined our diagnosis: conservatism is a partially heritable...