>Kelly, I don't think that you can make a clear equation between the religious
>right and racist/fascist/homophobic sentiments.
no, but the same logic is operating. there was an assumption that economic turmoil and a sense of relative deprivation and feeling down trodden encouraged people to sympathize with the religious right, that they rural poor were the backbone of the religious right. that was rejected in recent research. similarly, there was the same assumption--associated with the frankfurt school's personality studies. it has been ripped to shreds. like i said, lnp3.exe had a very long, as usual, post on this topic over a year ago. i'm sure he's even reposted it at least twice since then.
kelley
>kelley wrote:
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>> >Aren't the people who are most susceptible to racist/fascist/homophobic
>> some of the most downtrodden
>>
>> no. yoshie posted something about the religious right being more affluent
>> than people had thought. this argument, above, has been overturned often
>> in the social science literature. it has also been overturned in the
>> studies of who supported nazism in germany. ask LNP3.exe or look it up in
>> archives of both lbo and pen-l as i think he cc'd that post there and
>> lbo--back in sept or oct of 98
>>
>> kelley
>>
>> kelley
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