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Voter Demographics and Abortion
According to Phillip Longman, a demographer at the New America Foundation, Bush states had a 13 percent higher fertility rate than their blue counterparts, whose base, as he puts it, is essentially "non-replicating." [Joel Kotkin via Michelle Malkin]
What defect would limit the blue state voters from replicating? Kotkin seems to argue that Republican dominated regions are more attractive to families while the perception often given by the Democratic party is that it views large families with disdain. While this may be true, consider the following excerpts from an article that was quoted in part by Malkin in response to her readers:
Republicans have fewer abortions than their proportion of the population, Democrats have more than their proportion of the population. Democrats account for 30% more abortions than Republicans (49% vs. 35%).
The more ideologically Democratic the voters are (self-identified liberals), the more abortions they have. The more ideologically Republican the voters are (self-identified conservatives), the fewer abortions they have.
[Wall Street Journal Editorial]
While proposing a family friendly worldview shift for Democrats, Kotkin concludes, "Perhaps more than anything else, Democrats need a change in style." He also suggests that a change in venue for the next convention would be appropriate. However, it wasn't style or the location of the convention that drove a sizeable number of Democrats to engage in behavior and set goals that resulted in a relative decrease in their population. It was their beliefs. What Democrats need to change (and what our society needs to change) are beliefs.
Posted by tim at December 5, 2004 2:44 PM
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Comments
What is ironic is that the same blue-state folks who resist any opportunity to have their own children to raise and inculcate with their values, find it appropriate to inculcate OUR children with their values via the public schools. (They can't have mine.)
Dory
Posted by: Dory at December 5, 2004 11:22 PM
Insisting that Democrats should change their beliefs is the same as them imposing their laws on you. You conservatives claim you are for a less intrusive government, and more civil rights, unless you are gay, pro-choice, or some other religion than Christian.
Laws made under the influence of one religion are a violation of the first amendment.
You conservatives have gotten this huge head about your "religious values" because you won. You claim you have good Christian values, then you scream Bomb Iran!!. You support legalized gambling, and capital punishment. You say you are tolerant, but you condemn anyone who's beliefs differ fom yours.
Wake up and smell the hypocrisy.
Posted by: Joe at December 5, 2004 11:58 PM
I think you misread my post (30 seconds, blog explosion?) otherwise you would not have put words in my mouth and incorrectly attributed to me views that I don't hold. Hmmm, since you chose not to engage the substance of what I wrote but instead condemned some fictitious Christian of your own design I will only note the fundamental contradiction in your condemnation of those who condemn others and the intolerance you show to those who oppose your beliefs.
Posted by: Tim at December 6, 2004 12:30 AM
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