Liberals are Different From You and Me...

They have fewer babies. That’s the finding of Arthur C. Brooks in the Wall Street Journal.
The math is pretty simple.

According to the 2004 General Social Survey, if you picked 100 unrelated politically liberal adults at random, you would find that they had, between them, 147 children. If you picked 100 conservatives, you would find 208 kids. That's a "fertility gap" of 41%.

Who cares? Despite the liberal slant of Big Education 80 percent of children vote like their parents. So that means that it matters that conservatives have more babies. More conservative babies means more conservative voters.

And there are signs that babies are becoming a status symbol. Hedge fund managers are going for four to five children. Hey, they can afford it. And in Greenwich, Connecticut, they tell me, “three is the new two.”

Now you know why Democrats are all in favor of immigration, and especially illegal immigration. They figure that importing a bunch of helpless victims is the only way they can make up the liberal babies lost to abortion.

But the line on Hispanics is that they track pretty well with the native US population. You can predict their voting behavior on income. So Hispanics may well turn into a conservative voting block in the next generation.

Back to the three Ks, eh liberals! Kirche, Kuche, Kinder.