If you were capable of understanding context, I'd waste time explaining it to you.
By definition, it makes you more educated. But I'll grant you the larger point you're making, even though you're underlying argument is one that I disagree with wholeheartedly. Being educated about things like science and how science works generally leads to belief in things with scientific consensus. The less educated folks are often willing to believe science is a guess by people.
If you were capable of understanding context, I'd waste time explaining it to you.
Dude, chill it's the day after an election. People are blowing off steam. I rarely make political comments in here but expect it from people for a few days and read past the you don't like.
The democratic and republican Parties looked a lot different in 1952, when the American National Election Studies—surveys of voters conducted before and after presidential elections—were in their infancy. The Republicans, to some extent, were still regarded as the party of Lincoln, even though they had shifted their focus to courting southern white voters, causing black people to leave the party.
Meanwhile, the Democrats were the party of a coalition that pushed for social services—the party of the New Deal. There were far fewer college-educated Americans at the time, but the white Americans who did have degrees tended to vote Republican, and those who didn't sided with the Democrats by a significant margin.
This split was relatively stable for decades and then, steadily, it began to change. “The shift in whites without a college degree away from the Democratic Party begins as the Democratic Party becomes identified as the party of civil rights,” starting in the 1960s, Robby P. Jones, the CEO of the Public Religion Research Ins ute, told me. Disaffected white southern Democrats, in particular, fled in droves.
Party realignment doesn't happen overnight. Just because a voter swings across the aisle in one election doesn't mean that they'll quit the party they've identified with their entire lives. Still, strong support for the Democrats among whites without a college degree, borne out of economic incentives—and racial resentment—began to wane. In their book, The Rise of Southern Republicans, the scholars Merle Black and Earl Black call this shift the “Great White Switch.”
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There’s a question that splits Americans neatly in two. Every year, on its American Values Survey, the Public Religion Research Ins ute asks Americans whether they “think American culture and way of life has mostly changed for the better, or has it mostly changed for the worse?” 50 percent of Americans say that it’s gotten better in this years poll, and 47 percent say that it has gotten worse.
But for white voters, the answer to that question is split by education level. Fifty-eight percent of college-educated whites this year say that America has gotten better since 1950, while 57 percent of non-college-educated whites say that it’s gotten worse. When President Trump says “Make America great again,” the againis instructive. He’s capitalizing on the nostalgia that non-college-educated white voters have for America’s past. “That harkening back to a supposed golden age where things were better has a really, really strong appeal for whites without a college degree,” Jones said.
That nostalgia, however, is for a time when black Americans and other minority groups had significantly fewer civil rights. And a Republican rhetoric that centers a longing for an era of white prosperity, rife with racist violence against black people, is why it’s impossible to understand the diploma divide without accounting for racial resentment. Needless to say, black Americans and other minority groups aren’t as keen on returning to the past.
When researchers control for voter at udes on race in addition to white voters’ education level, Tesler says, the diploma divide disappears. No other factor, he says, explains the education gap as well—not economic anxiety, ideology, income, or gender.
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Quite possibly a top ten worst post of all time on this board, and there is plenty of compe ion here.
People who mention total national Senate voting numbers as being relevant or significant are complete idiots and should be laughed at
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Lol Beta
you murdered him
In general people with degrees are more intelligent than people without degrees. Are you a ing moron.
College degree means nothing when it comes to politics except that maybe you are more falsely indoctrinated than most. They have us right where they want us, perfectly divided. It amazes me how much everyone is arguing right now over things that mean very little.
Neither of these two candidates could give two s about any one of us.
They agree on these topics: 1. Growing the national debt (regardless of what they say, look at how they vote). The national debt over the last hundred years pretty much doubles every eight years. 2. Going to war (we have been in wars for over one hundred years 3. They agree on the "war on terror" 4. They don't dare challenge or threaten the federal reserve or the true right they have to issue currency/money with any seriousness 5. They spend like drunken sailors
Both of these candidates will fall in line when it comes to these issues, because they are at the very heart and soul of all our troubles. Everyone here has excellent points they are just poorly directed and not understanding of the root cause.
I was a die hard conservative/republican up until the end of Bush junior presidency. I now hate him just as I did Obama, Pelosi, etc.. When Bush passed TARP and Obama got elected is when I realized I had been stuck in the silly game all of you are in right now. It is interesting, because at that time the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street were gaining huge momentum, were true grass roots, and believe it or not shared a lot of the same view points. But they both got hijacked pretty quickly. Tea Party allowed themselves to get sucked in by the Republicans and Occupy Wall Street the Democrats and the media made sure the masses were separated on issues once again.
So you've never taken any economics courses but you do watch loose change and infowars.. stellar education sir
Also lol on anyone who says parties are the same..... If they where you vote mixed to stymie the party in power and to prevent excess. But that would require some intelligence most people don't have. Much easier just to on everything and be greedy
The moral roots of liberals and conservatives
https://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_h...e=en#t-1095565
All parties are the same. Votes Republican only.
Anyone saying that "the parties are the same" is likely talking in a narrow context. Most people recognize there are significant differences about the parties.
Well then, I'll make sure and tell you that Democrats won the House vote by 9%. And then I'll let you know some other places you guys lose with regularity. Lol. Idiot.People who mention total national Senate voting numbers as being relevant or significant are complete idiots and should be laughed at
You blasphemous dunce, the Democrats have only lost a national popular vote for POTUS once in the last 26 years. Yet because of the ancient electoral college, 2 presidents that had no business taking office did so.
The larger context here is that Republicans rarely win. And never do so when turnout is higher. Thus, Republicans only win when they succeed at blocking the American people from the ballot box.
Feel proud in your victories. You earned them through rejection, deception, lies, division, and hatred.
El Paso still for Beto!
Simply awesome post. It will fly over the head of the Trump sheep here but nicely done, man.
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