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To: zonder who wrote (11752)6/22/2004 8:57:49 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (2) of 20773
 
political affinity certainly is not a genetically transmissable trait,

But it is a socially influenced trait.

Adding 18 years to 1973, the first generation of your alleged decrease in Democratic-voting population comes to voting age in 1991. What happens in the elections since that date?...

You then proceed to list some (Presidential) voting statistics in '92, '96, and 2000.

However, some other politically significant things have happened since 1991. Republicans won majority control of the House of Representatives for the first time in 4 decades. That happened in 1994. Republicans also achieved majority control in the US Senate. Thus both houses of Congress fell into Republican hands and have remained there. Presidential votes are much more variable than Congressional.

So you are wrong both theoretically AND in practice.

I think that remains to be shown. The shift in Congressional votes is consistent with the theory I've been advancing here.
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