Conservative women

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Nov 7 11:24:08 PST 2001


Kelley wrote:


>and, at that point, the gender gap wasn't about women becoming more
>conservative, but about men becoming more conservative.

Hard to say - Reagan polarized the issues of war and welfare pretty severely.

Judging just on presidential votes, it looks like things went both ways:

1972 1976 1980

----------------- ----------------- ----------------

Nixon McG Carter Ford Reagan Carter men 62 36 50 48 55 36 women 61 37 50 48 47 45

If you just look at the shift from 76-80, it does look like men did most of the changing, but if you go back to '72, the 14-point dropoff for women between Nixon & Reagan is pretty sharp - twice as big as the male.

Still, there's not much doubt that lots of men thought Carter was a pussy. As Joel Kovel says, the Reps are the party of the stern father, and the Dems, as much as they try, just can't match that.

Doug



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