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[Nadienne]

It's something conservatives try to protect. An interesting, long paper explains: (it's a pdf file)

Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition

For a summary, go here.

A sample:

"The surface manifestations of conservative behavior may change over time, for example displaying itself as vociferous opposition to school busing, during that time when school busing represents a change in the social order, with that issue moving off the center stage to be replaced by resistance to some other form of change once school busing has become a fact and a new generation of conservatives familiar with the practice come on the scene.

In addition to resistance to change, the authors identify acceptance of social inequality as one of the stable ideological core values of conservatism."

For a humorous summary of the summary, go here. Actually, I recommend reading this one, first.

A sample of their humor:

"Well, we always knew there was something wrong with them."

and

"Right wingers proved the researchers right by promptly losing their minds and screaming for the hides of the perpetrators. Right wing radio hosts howled and gibbered that an investigation should be made immediately into the funding these researchers get, and they were accused, in no particular order, and according to no rhyme or reason, of being anti-American and anti-Christian and probably for gay rights and gun control."

Enjoy!