The Richard Morin column is always one of the better reads in the Wash Post.
Not, that this discredits the findings,heh, in the least, but, Ronald Inglefart (heh, heh, meant, hart!) has a checkered set of co-workers in his past. Co-wrote some articles, if memory serves, with right-wing "expert", Robert Lichter that groups like Accuracy In Media always cite about supposed left-liberal Media Elites. Inglehart, if you look in back issues of the AJS also has some interesting research on, "Post-Materialist, " values which he gives a neo-con interpretation of.
Cited often in the magazine of the American Enterprise Institute. Michael Pugliese