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The Fertility Gap

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Posted on Aug 22, 2006

Liberals will continue to lose ground in American politics as long as conservatives continue to outbreed them, argues a Syracus University professor in the Wall Street Journal. (The blue/red baby gap is much bigger than you’d imagine.)

Arthur C. Brooks in the Wall Street Journal:

... Some believe the gap reflects an authentic cultural difference between left and right in America today. As one liberal columnist in a major paper graphically put it,

“Maybe the scales are tipping to the neoconservative, homogenous right in our culture simply because they tend not to give much of a damn for the ramifications of wanton breeding and environmental destruction and pious sanctimony, whereas those on the left actually seem to give a whit for the health of the planet and the dire effects of overpopulation.”

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By Liz, August 24, 2006 at 4:19 am #
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Excatly, Comment #19575 by Ben on 8/22 at 3:54 pm
and Cheryl on 8/23 at 10:12 am I was born into roman cathloic curch and I am agnostic have been for 15 years I am 21. I belive we are all interconnected souls and such. I belive we are the higher power which should make us have defeat the control over what these religious assholes have done and love and appreciate one another even more. If people would get thier heads out from thier asses and realize this the world would be a much happier place!

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By MELLE, August 23, 2006 at 9:55 am #
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Hey, we don’t have to outbreed them.  My step- and adopted kids are as liberal as I am.  Without any breeding at all on my part, I’ve helped to “reproduce” five little liberals.  Adopt, I say, adopt!

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By Cheryl, August 23, 2006 at 9:12 am #
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Just because the parents are conservative doesn’t mean the children will turn out to be the same.  My parents are Southern Baptists, I’m an atheist.  My dad votes Republican most of the time, I have never voted Republican.

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By anonymous, August 23, 2006 at 7:16 am #
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Hell!  I’m hopin’ to survive past Jan. ‘09!!

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By Scott, August 22, 2006 at 9:51 pm #
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Depressing? It’s a horrifying prospect.

It’s like slow motion suicide attack.

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By Ben, August 22, 2006 at 2:54 pm #
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This depresses me.  The forces of rediculous religion still have millions convinced that to procreate willy nilly without regard to societal impact is a holy, righteous imperative to be rewarded in heaven.

God, save us from your “faithful”.  They know not what they do.

This is part of the reason why talk of abstinence-only education and condom availability suppression (in the third world!!!, not to mention the first) makes my blood boil.

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