Take a randomly selected sample of 100 liberal adults and 100 conservative adults. According to an analysis of the 2004 General Social Survey -- a bible of data for social scientists -- the liberals would have had 147 kids, while the conservatives would have had 208. That's a fertility gap of 41 percent. Even adjusting for other variables like age and income, there is a gap of 19 percent.Why many Democrats have a "fetish" for "immigration reform. Because a movement needs more than walking your dog to Starbucks and reading the Sunday New York Times.
Thursday, July 11, 2013
Republicans' fertile future / Through the past three decades, conservatives have been procreating more than liberals
We re-post this one. The S. F. Chronicle reports: