Political Victory (for smirk) : From Here to Maternity

[donsu]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54700-2004Sep1.html

What's the difference between the protesters outside the Republican convention and the delegates inside? There are many, of course, but one will ultimately skew American politics and the culture wars in the Republicans' favor, regardless of who has God or reason on her side. It's the divide between who is having children and who isn't.

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Fertility correlates strongly with religious conviction. In the United States, fully 47 percent of people who attend church weekly say that their ideal family size is three or more children. By contrast, only 27 percent of those who seldom attend church want that many kids.

High fertility also correlates strongly with support for George W. Bush. Of the top 10 most fertile states, all but one voted for Bush in 2000. Among the 17 states that still produce enough children to replace their populations, all but two -- Iowa and Minnesota -- voted for Bush in the last election. Conversely, the least fertile states -- a list that includes Maine, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Connecticut -- went overwhelmingly for Al Gore. Women living in Gore states on average have 12 percent fewer babies than women living in Bush states.

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If Gore's America (and presumably John Kerry's) is reproducing at a slower pace than Bush's America, what does this imply for the future? Well, as the comedian Dick Cavett remarked, "If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either." When secular-minded Americans decide to have few if any children, they unwittingly give a strong evolutionary advantage to the other side of the culture divide. Sure, some children who grow up in fundamentalist families will become secularists, and vice versa. But most people, particularly if they have children, wind up with pretty much the same religious and political orientations as their parents. If "Metros" don't start having more children, America's future is "Retro."
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pollution will solve every problem - fertility is down in all species including humans and more and more offspring have disabilities.

tick, tick, tick

[fudge stripe cookays]

1. I've been thinking of this a lot lately.

They're fucking outbreeding us. We won't be able to keep up before too long.

They'll have kid after kid after kid and indoctrinate them one after another.

FSC

[Iris]

2. yeah, but they'll also have more kids to rebel against their parents

close-minded lifestyles.

[displacedtexan]

3. The image I see when I read that story...

...is Lisa Simpson's vision of herself as an uneducated Trailer Park wife with several screaming, unkempt, idiotic children grabbing at her while she tries to watch "her stories."