well not directly born republican or democratic, but neuropsych differences have been found between self identified conservatives and liberals. For instance the part of the brain that mainly deals with processing fear and anxiety related information tends to be larger among conservatives. In contrast progressives tend to have a larger and more active anterior cingulate cortex. That part of the brain deals mainly with complex and nuanced data.
That in part may explain why fear based messages resonate much more with conservatives and complex and shades of grey cognition is more attractive to liberals. Similarly another line of research with personality traits have shown that liberals tend to score higher on measures of Openness to Experience while conservatism is positively related to Conscientiousness. Both of these traits are thought to have large heritable components. let the frothing and teeth gnashing begin... On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 1:45 PM, GMoney <gm0n3...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Cameron Childress <camer...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Assigning fault I am fine with. My problem comes from political prejudice. >> To me, it's just as distasteful to say "all black people are ____" as it is >> to say "all republicans / democrats are ____". >> > > Hmmm....i don't necessarily agree with you here. > > People are born black....people are not born democrat or republican. > > If you make a CHOICE, and that choice is to associate with a certain > group....then i think criticism of said choice is not on it's face, > distasteful. It can be, but it doesn't have to be. > > I would make the blanket claim that "all members of the KKK are assholes", > and I would stand by that. They made a choice, and here's what i think of > it. > > I find that far less distasteful than blanket statements about people who > are solely a member of a group because of genetics. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:349877 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
