Thursday, August 24, 2006

Oversexed Rightists

ABC News: The Political Fertility Gap: "Aug. 23, 2006 — It is one of the more unusual battle lines in the culture wars.

Liberals, it is said, have a baby problem. They don't have enough of them, compared to conservatives. And this failure to replenish their ranks is a reason why they lose elections. Call it a fertility gap.

'The political right is having a lot more kids than the political left,' Syracuse University professor Arthur Brooks says. 'The gap is actually 41 percent.'

Studying numbers from the General Social Survey — a government survey of social trends — Brooks found that 100 unrelated liberal adults have 147 children, while 100 unrelated conservatives have 208 kids. . ."

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