All in the Family: Red States, Blue States, and Postmodern Family Patterns, 2000 and 2004

Monson, Renée A.; Mertens, Jo Beth

doi:10.1111/j.1533-8525.2011.01203.x

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“…One of the greatest changes in American rural politics has been the transformation of the "solid South"-a Democratic fortress for a century after the Civil War-into an equally strong source of Republican votes (McKee 2008;Black 2004;hayes and McKee 2008). Republican success in rural America is also evident in much of the Midwest (Frank 2004;Bartels 2006;Francia and Baumgartner 2005;McVeigh and Diaz 2009;Monson and Mertens 2011;Gimpel and Karnes 2006). however, the Republican Party's dominance in rural America has not been uniform.…”

Section: Kenneth M Johnson Is a Professor Of Sociology And Senior Dementioning

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Political Polarization along the Rural-Urban Continuum? The Geography of the Presidential Vote, 2000–2016

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Johnson²

2017

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This article documents the diversity of political attitudes and voting patterns along the urban-rural continuum of the United States. We find that America’s rural and urban interface, in terms of political attitudes and voting patterns, is just beyond the outer edges of large urban areas and through the suburban counties of smaller metropolitan areas. Both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton performed well in densely populated areas on the urban side of the interface, but they faced increasingly difficult political climates and sharply diminished voter support on the rural side of the interface. The reduction in support for Clinton in 2016 in rural areas was particularly pronounced. Even after controlling for demographic, social, and economic factors (including geographic region, education, income, age, race, and religious affiliation) in a spatial regression, we find that a county’s position in the urban-rural continuum remained statistically significant in the estimation of voting patterns in presidential elections.

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Section: Kenneth M Johnson Is a Professor Of Sociology And Senior Dementioning

confidence: 99%

Political Polarization along the Rural-Urban Continuum? The Geography of the Presidential Vote, 2000–2016

Scala¹,

Johnson²

2017

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Scie

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148

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“…For instance, research has revealed that, relative to social liberals, social conservatives exhibit lower short-term mating orientation (STMO—i.e. interest in casual sex [ 7 , 8 ]), lower numbers of lifetime sexual partners [ 9 , 10 ], higher rates of marriage [ 11 ], younger ages of childbirth [ 12 ], more traditional family structures [ 13 ], and larger family sizes [ 14 ]. Evolutionary psychologists have theorized that these differences in mating strategies may create conflicts of interest, causing individuals to support the policies and social norms that facilitate their mating strategy [ 15 , 16 ].…”

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The effect of the promiscuity stereotype on opposition to gay rights

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Haselton

2017

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Opposition to gay rights is prevalent in countries around the world. Recent correlational research suggests that opposition to gay rights may be driven by an interaction between one’s own short-term mating orientation (i.e. willingness to engage in casual sex) and representations of gay people as sexually promiscuous. Here, we experimentally manipulated representations of gay men by randomly assigning participants to read one of two versions of a fictitious newspaper article, one of which contained faux scientific evidence confirming the stereotype that gay men are promiscuous, and the other containing faux scientific evidence refuting the stereotype. We found that the manipulation interacted with short-term mating orientation (STMO) to predict opposition to gay rights, such that low-STMO individuals (i.e. more averse to casual sex) exhibited more support for gay rights when assigned to read the stereotype-refuting article compared to the stereotype-confirming article, whereas high-STMO individuals (i.e. less averse to casual sex) were not significantly influenced by the manipulation. We discuss the implications of these findings for the study of antigay attitudes, as well as for recent societal changes in acceptance of homosexuality.

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“…The news media have chronicled the increased partisanship in Washington (Hulse and Herszenhorn 2009;Krugman 2002) and scholars have investigated changing regional divides among Americans, particularly in terms of how such differences translate into voting patterns (Cahn and Carbone 2010;Lesthaeghe and Neidert 2006;Monson and Mertens 2011). Our research weighs into this national discussion about growing cultural divides in the United States and provides some evidence to challenge this claim.…”

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The Cultural Divide and Changing Beliefs about Gender in the United States, 1974–2010

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The present paper examines claims of a growing cultural divide in the United States. We analyze social change in beliefs about gender over a period of 36 years (from 1974 to 2010) in the United States using data from the nationally representative General Social Survey (GSS). We find evidence of growing gender egalitarianism until the mid-1990s, with a reversal between 1996 and 2000, and a decline in state differences in beliefs about gender over time in our decomposition analysis and multilevel models. Although we find significant differences in gender beliefs among states in the 1970s based on their voting record on the Equal Rights Amendment and based on patterns of family formation and family life associated with the Second Demographic Transition, these differences among states decreased or disappeared entirely by the early years of the twenty-first century. We highlight the implications of our findings for the ongoing public and academic debate surrounding growing cultural differences among states. Keywords Gender equality. Sex role attitudes. Gender. Gender attitudes. Social change. Cohort analysis. Second demographic transition A growing body of research in sociology and political science has focused on changes in the polarization in mass publics with respect to a range of social and policy-related attitudes and beliefs. James Davison Hunter's (1991, p. 42) book Culture Wars and his introduction of the idea of polarization, in which he used the Bcultural warfare^metaphor to describe the existence in the U.S. of Bpolitical and social hostility rooted in different systems of moral understanding,^set the stage for a substantial amount of research. Recent studies have suggested that culture may be supplanting social class as the major line of demarcation in accounting for party choice and political identities in American politics (see Alwin and Tufis 2016; Frank 2004; Layman 2001). Despite Hunter's (1991) argument, the emerging literature on polarization characterizes these apparent ideological conflicts as

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All in the Family: Red States, Blue States, and Postmodern Family Patterns, 2000 and 2004

Cited by 11 publications

References 37 publications

Political Polarization along the Rural-Urban Continuum? The Geography of the Presidential Vote, 2000–2016

Political Polarization along the Rural-Urban Continuum? The Geography of the Presidential Vote, 2000–2016

The effect of the promiscuity stereotype on opposition to gay rights

The Cultural Divide and Changing Beliefs about Gender in the United States, 1974–2010

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