Posted on 06/05/2013 11:13:03 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It turns out the parents of Hillary Rodham Clinton and Rick Perry knew what they were doing when they named their babies.
A research paper by a team of University of Chicago political scientists found that liberals and conservatives, in addition to all of their other differences, have distinct tendencies when it comes to choosing names for their newborns.
Names with the soft consonant “l” or that end in a long “a” — for example, President Obama’s daughter Malia — are more likely to be found in Democratic neighborhoods, while names with hard vowel sounds such as K, G or B — think former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s sons Track and Trig — are more popular in Republican communities.
“We find strong differences in birth-naming practices related to race, economic status and ideology,” said the paper, “Liberellas versus Konservatives: Social Status, Ideology, and Birth Names in the United States.”
“Although higher status mothers of all races favor more popular birth names, high-status liberal mothers more often choose uncommon, culturally obscure birth names,” the paper said. “Liberals also favor birth names with ‘softer, feminine’ sounds while conservatives favor names with ‘harder, masculine’ phonemes.”
The study stops short of listing baby names as conservative or liberal, but does offer findings based on data derived from an examination of the 2004 California birth records, electoral precincts and the 2000 U.S. Census.
The authors devised a “Male Gender Score” for names, which reveals that “college-educated white mothers choose names with more feminine phonemes as their neighborhood becomes more liberal.”(continued)
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Barack Walker Roosevelt
That’s probably why I felt compelled to name my son Butch Deadlift, and the other Bolt Vanderhuge.
Who invented this?
Stop refilling his glass!
Gee, who would've ever picked those as Democrat names ...?< / s >
Ping...
:D
>> Butch Deadlift
Snort
Trayvon
Malia does not end in a Long a sound.
And what is with this KGB stuff???
This is more about ebonics or faux black Muslim patterns
Than brain name determinations
That did not work out so well for Wolf Blitzer now did it... a slightly effeminate leftist news anchor.
My other brother, with a name that this article would lead you to believe contributes to conservative values, is a liberal.
What a cutie!
Thank You! :)
Wonder what this study cost the tax payers.
” while names with hard vowel sounds such as K, G or B ... are more popular in Republican communities.”
Last I checked those were consonants.
- Craven Morehead
Conservatives need to have as many babies as they possibly can, and raise them as religiously as they possibly can. If we can do that, and restrict immigration, we may yet survive as a nation the Founders intended.
I’ve always liked the name ‘Shithead.’ That’s shuh-THEED.
It starts with a nice soft ‘sh’ and ends with a brutally hard ‘d’ sound. Confuses the heck out of liberals and their minions.
‘Urethra’ is a lovely feminine name. It’s like listening to water rushing down a stream into a pond.
“Conservatives need to have as many babies as they possibly can, and raise them as religiously as they possibly can. If we can do that, and restrict immigration, we may yet survive as a nation the Founders intended.”
That’s right; the lesson to be learned from this article is that productive Americans aren’t having enough children. If they were, the names used by the welfare underclass wouldn’t even be a blip on the radar.
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