[ConsistentLibertarian]

"The theory basicly is that [pop psychology deleted]". Even if we assume we're working with good data, there are other explanations. People with a college education tend, on average, to earn more than people without. And the Republican party is perceived as being more friendly to people in the upper income brackets. So assuming that voting patterns bear some relation to self-interest, we don't need much in the way of speculative psychology to explain the data, assuming the data is reliable to begin with.

[wizr]

If I could have voted for Barry Goldwater, in the sixties, I would have.

But then, during the later campaigns, I saw blue suits behind the Republican candidates, Levies and plaid shirts behind the Democrat candidates. The visuals worked on me.

I considered myself a conserative Democrat. Voted with that party for the last time in '92.

I still hate the political trash that is laid out before us every day. It's tough to decipher. FR helps.

Thanks Mike

[wideawake]

I disagree. I work on Wall Street and am continually appalled by the number of wealthy cryptoCommunists here.

By all rational criteria, people who have made a substantial fortune DIRECTLY from the workings of a free market and who have substantial property holdings and adult responsibilities should have a fairly conservative outlook on life. Yet they continually badmouth the President, bitch and moan about the Attorney General, whine about "what a racist country this is" (they're mostly white) and oppose tax cuts, estate tax elimination and our "primitive justice system".

Basically, being a leftist is still chic, and they will say or do anything against their own natural self-interest (except quitting their job and working in a government homeless shelter) in order to keep up with the fashion.

[ijcr]

The theory falls flat when you look at the Media,Lawyers,Federal,State and munincipal employees.