I've finally figured out normal white people.

[Hortensis]

239. You should educate yourself. This post is really

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insulting and out of line. 70% of whites are "social conservatives?" Total nonsense.

However, most of the polling on this is highly misleading as almost all polls ask people to self-identify, instead of conducting expensive testing for true orientation. Since self identification correlates strongly with voting behavior, pollsters are interested in these numbers, even though they are very inaccurate in determining distribution of personality types, such as social conservative. Most notably, after 40 years of mass right-wing villification of liberals, liberals chronically and often drastically under-"identify." However, EVEN those inaccurate numbers do not come close to supporting your very insulting allegation.

Probably somewhere around 20% of Americans would be considered predominantly social/cultural/religious conservatives, and those are distributed roughly equally across all racial groups, blacks and the rest. Social conservatism is not a white phenomenon, but a human one.

Other conservatives would be predominantly traditional/temporal and economic, and the lot of them comprise roughly half the population. As we see every election these very ideologically divided days.

Very interestingly, cultures tend to be more conservative in hot climates and as they are closer to the equator; and conservatism tends to be stronger in individuals whose ancestors came from hot climates or closer to the equator. The same effects hold for liberalism somewhat stronger in cooler climates. This also does not support your...theory.

I have not read analysis of how global warming increases might be expected to affect the planet's political orientations, but much of the United States is very hot these days, and the hottest regions tend to be more politically conservative.

Btw, Avi Tuschman's "Our Political Nature" brings together findings from various academic perspectives on this.