[lbo-talk] Adolph Reed on BHO

[Miles Jackson]

Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> Is that really true? I suspect there's a lot of continuity between 
> parents' politics and their kids' politics. I recall that someone - 
> Richard Freeman maybe? - did a survey of campus anti-sweatshop 
> activists in the late 1990s and found a very large share of them had 
> parents who were activists of some sort in the 1960s. And just last 
> night we were talking with a friend who's in Solidarity who said that 
> many of her comrades with grown kids reported their offspring to be 
> involved in radical politics in some way. I'm guessing these "aha!" 
> conversion experiences are unusual. Not unheard of but not the norm.
>
> Doug
Yes.  The correlation between parents' and grown childrens' political 
beliefs is typically around .60 or .70.  As the cliche goes, the apple 
doesn't fall far from the tree.

Miles