[extropy-chat] Article: "Political Victory: From Here to Maternity"

[Paul carbone]

>
>After reading this article,
>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54700-2004Sep1.html and
>wondered how mormons vote anyway.  If they genes reproduce more
>aggressivley than any other social domain, then how will they vote?
>
>Natasha

Well, look at it this way, the confluence of factors in Utah makes it 
perfect for big conservatives to raise little ones. FIrst, you have 
conservative parents with (presumably) whatever genetic factors that might 
predispose someone to being conservative. Next you've got the peer group. 
The peer group is also raised by conservative parents. So they grow up in 
that environment with their package of genes, and go to register to vote. 
This is where the culture comes in. Given that he is sympathetic to 
conservative ideals, whatever they happen to be, means that he wishes to 
align himself to those that also support them. Accordingly, he can choose 
between Democrats or Republicans. He is most likely to choose Republican, 
given all we know, as he belives they are the party of conservatism. Taken 
on a large scale, we can expect this process to gradually magnify the 
conservative elements of American politics, and shunting left-leaning 
parties gradually out of the mainstream. We may already be seeing this 
occuring, as college students today have become far more conservative than 
those of the previous generation, exemplified in increasing opposition to 
such things as abortion. We'll see if this exerts much influence in another 
twenty years or so.

--Paul
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