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)
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Wonder what this study cost the tax payers.
My thoughts exactly.
BS
“BS”
Yes.
Doesn’t she have her vowels and consonants mixed up?
I actually met a woman named Chlamydia.
LLS
I have 10.
If you’re looking at resumes, you can already pretty much figure out whether a person is black due to their first name. Now, if you can figure out if they’re conservative, you’re that much further ahead, as they’re much less likely to run off and sue you.
...not saying that it’s legal, just that it’s possible.
I was wondering if anyone noticed that.
My son wants to name his daughter Reagan.....wonder if that gives away any political persuasion??
My son’s name is Thundercles Kal-El Zombie-Slayer Witchunter Camacho. And you have to say it all like “a pimp named Slick-Back”.
A soft, liberal, feminine name like ‘Jenna’ Bush?
That or love of “The Exorcist.”
Well it took a “Rush” from the “show me” state to make talkradio possible.
I always thought anyone named Wolf Blitzer would be the son of a Waffen-SS lieutenant colonel.
Tell your son to read King Lear before naming his daughter Reagan.
Malia could be translated as “bad.” Would not have been my choice for a baby girl. I wonder if there was ignorance on the part of Mr and Mrs Obama.
Think he’ll go with the President. He named his son James....as in Madison.
Unfortunately, that's who I think of..... :(
-——Malia——
Perhaps there are African roots ie Mali girl
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