If You Live Near Other People, You're Probably a Democrat.
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If You Live Near Other People, You're Probably a Democrat.
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#2I've recently become fascinated by the concept that one's political affiliation tends to sync up with one's dominant survival strategy. If you rely most on communities and relationships, you tend to be liberal; if you rely most on authority and hierarchies, you tend to be conservative; if you rely most on your own skills, you tend to be libertarian.
http://www.meltingasphalt.com/the-ecology-of-personal-politi...
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#3Fascinating.
I wonder if in the years to come as population density increases, will more and more people vote Democrat, or will the magic number of 800 people per sq. mile. simply increase?
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#4I've recently become fascinated by the concept that one's political affiliation tends to sync up with one's dominant survival strategy. If you rely most on communities and relationships, you tend to be liberal; if you rely most on authority and hierarchies, you tend to be conservative; if you rely most on your own skills, you tend to be libertarian. http://www.meltingasphalt.com/the-ecology-of-personal-politi...
Consider applying the r/K Selection Theory to politics. Makes a disturbing amount of sense: http://www.anonymousconservative.com/blog/the-theory/rk-sele...
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#5What I always enjoy reading, from an intellectual sense and not a "ha ha" sense, is "awakening" stories when people are raised super conservative and follow that path - until they have a personal experience that enlightens them that it's not ideal.
Watching self-discovery instead of being hit over the head with it is always fascinating.
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#6Fascinating. I wonder if in the years to come as population density increases, will more and more people vote Democrat, or will the magic number of 800 people per sq. mile. simply increase?
The density number will almost certainly increase. Both of the major US political parties are very pragmatic -- they're willing to shift their platforms as much as necessary to capture a bare majority (if they weren't, they wouldn't remain major parties for long). So while it's possible that ideals currently endorsed by the Democratic platform will become more widespread that only means that the Republicans will shift their stand to match the majority opinions.
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#7I'd like to know if more fine-grained data on population density is available. Congressional districts have a very broad array of population densities within them. I'd love to have access to density information at the voting precinct level and see if that correlation still holds.
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#8I realized this a decade or so ago when digging thru election precinct maps and noticed how bright the "red/blue division" line was around urban areas.
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#9The huge amount of scatter around the line of best fit in the scatterplot shown in the article demonstrates that there is a HUGE degree of uncertainty in this model. I know plenty of counterexamples to this in my high-density townhouse neighborhood.
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