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> ...incessant anti-conservative tech culture Not sure I'd silo this as a tech culture thing. Education has been shown to negatively correlate with conservatis
by richmarr 9y ago
> ...incessant anti-conservative tech culture
Not sure I'd silo this as a tech culture thing. Education has been shown to negatively correlate with conservatism so it'd be reasonable to expect to see low numbers of conservatives in any field with higher educational barriers.
http://www.people-press.org/2016/04/26/a-wider-ideological-gap-between-more-and-less-educated-adults/ http://www.people-press.org/2016/04/26/a-wider-ideological-g...
- rednerrus 9y agoI can't tell if you are ironically making my point or not.
- devnull791101 9y agoexcept in UK, where the poor and uneducated are stereotypically labour/democrat supporters, wealthy educated types are tory/conservative.
- Edmond 9y agoThat use to be true in the US too and in some ways still is...but the US also has the race issue which tends to further complicate everything. Working class whites use to be democrats for economic reasons (labor) while still being socially conservative, now they're almost entirely republican and mostly it seems for social (really, ethnic) reasons. In the US republican affiliation is (or used to be) actually more closely tied with college education and higher income and that is the "fiscal conservatism" (basically lower taxes). Of course higher education levels and income also correlate quite closely with ethnicity and whites are mostly republicans.... Basically the political divisions have become quite ethnically polarized so the usual correlation between actual socio-economic interest and party affiliation don't hold the way one would expect.
- richmarr 9y agoNot sure what data you're looking at but Yougov says the exact opposite. https://yougov.co.uk/news/2017/04/25/demographics-dividing-britain/ https://yougov.co.uk/news/2017/04/25/demographics-dividing-b...