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Red Brain versus Blue Brain — Conservatives and Liberals Really Are Different
How Democrats might take advantage of our differences the next time we vote
My mother was born in 1918 and lived through the Great Depression from 1929 to 1939. She witnessed the suffering in this country caused by wealth inequality and the lack of regulations to curb it and then the healing due to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal.
The very next day after the New Deal was passed, Mama no longer had to bake biscuits to hand out to men who had been literally starving — because the minimum wage requirement in that legislation meant those men had enough money in their pockets at the end of the work day to buy groceries.
For the rest of her life, Mama read newspapers and political essays and voted Democrat. Thanks to her influence, I, too, vote Democrat.
While doing some research yesterday for what has become this article, I came across some information that tells me I should revise the previous sentence:
Partly thanks to my Mama’s influence, I, too, vote Democrat.
Two studies I found show that whether we are conservative or liberal depends on two determinants in addition to our parents’ political…