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Monday 16 November 2009

According to surveys taken across much of the last decade, the average Republican is now behind the average Democrat by more than a year of schooling — and this despite the Democrats still representing society’s poor and underprivileged.   What could this mean? Other than reflecting a party-migration by nearly everybody in America with real expertise or a post-graduate degree? Including, lately, a great many members of the US military’s Senior Officer Corps.  (Except for MBAs, of course.  Funny — they still tilt toward the Grand Old Party.)   Seriously, might the “Republican War on Science” and George Bush’s war against the US Civil Service, plus Culture War animosity in red counties toward Urban America, all be rooted in something deeper and more fundamental than anything that’s spoken aloud?  Deeper than the run of the mill talking points? At this juncture, I am willing to wager that Culture War has almost nothing to do with race, or even region.  Certainly not classic “conservative” policies, since Barry Goldwater would be a democrat, today.   No, it is — to some large extent — about something puerile and basic.   Hating smartypantses. David Brin

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