Carrol Cox wrote:
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> > According to the Washington Post columnist David Broder's analysis of exit
> > polls in the 2004 Presidential Elections, "about 22 percent of voters were
> > white evangelical or born-again Christians, three-quarters of whom went for
> > Bush." This kind of White conservative Christian voting for the Republican
> > party's presidential candidate translated into 30% of Bush's total national
> > vote.
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> Does their xtianity flow from their conservatism or their conservatism
> from the xtianity, or do both flow from some X not covered in the exit
> polls?
Let me illustrate. Of this 22%, what percent had republican grandparents who were not evangelical; what percent had evangelical grandparents who were not republican; what percent had petty producer (small farmer, retail store, etc) grandparents who were conservative but not evangelicals; what percentage had petty producer grandparents who were fundamentalists but liberal? What percentage had grandparents who were members of White Citizen Councils? What percentage had parents who had attended non-segregated schools? What percentage had parents who had attended private white schools? What percentage had been raised by non-churchgoing democratic voting parents. What percentage had college degrees? What percentage had children in school? What percentage were the children of college graduates? What percentage were high-school graduates with children in college? What percentage preferred coca-cola to pepsi-cola? What percentage drank decaffeinated soda pop?
How are we to control for all these variables? Isn't this maternal medication and homsexuality all over again?
Carrol