Democrats Not Having Enough Kids
Arthur C. Brooks:
To this observer it seems like this is less of a "fertility gap" than an "abortion gap." Since Roe vs. Wade made it impossible for states to ban abortion there have been approximately 47,000,000+ abortions, and I think it's safe to assume that most of those aborted babies would have been born to women/families with liberal tendencies.
47,000,000 people is a significant chunk of the populace. A whole lot of voters that could be voting Democrat but aren't.
Put simply, it appears as though liberals are actually aborting themselves out of the mainstream.
...liberals have a big baby problem: They're not having enough of them, they haven't for a long time, and their pool of potential new voters is suffering as a result. According to the 2004 General Social Survey, if you picked 100 unrelated politically liberal adults at random, you would find that they had, between them, 147 children. If you picked 100 conservatives, you would find 208 kids. That's a "fertility gap" of 41%. Given that about 80% of people with an identifiable party preference grow up to vote the same way as their parents, this gap translates into lots more little Republicans than little Democrats to vote in future elections. Over the past 30 years this gap has not been below 20%--explaining, to a large extent, the current ineffectiveness of liberal youth voter campaigns today.
To this observer it seems like this is less of a "fertility gap" than an "abortion gap." Since Roe vs. Wade made it impossible for states to ban abortion there have been approximately 47,000,000+ abortions, and I think it's safe to assume that most of those aborted babies would have been born to women/families with liberal tendencies.
47,000,000 people is a significant chunk of the populace. A whole lot of voters that could be voting Democrat but aren't.
Put simply, it appears as though liberals are actually aborting themselves out of the mainstream.
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