Out of curiousity- What's your political affiliation here on DL Forums

I once heard someone say that the more educated (generally speaking) the more liberal you become. So now I'm curious to see if that has any validity.

So how the folks here on DL Forum lean?

1. Democrat
2. Republican
3. Independant/ Third Major Party
4. I'm not touching this one with a ten foot pole

 

I once heard people from Northern California (NorCal) create invalid polls with bias. 4

 

How do you determine liberalism from which political party one belongs to? All parties have conservative, moderate and liberal members! Your curiosity is haphazard!

 

I vote your poll. I am Asian American, so you could guess what party I am affiliated with.

 

Exactly.

I have become more socially liberal if you want to put it that way. Another way to put it is that I've become more libertarian, but I don't subscribe to the Libertarian Party. I used to strongly identify with the Democratic Party, but I was also more socially conservative at the time.

 

Interesting! I guessed wrong.

Related: Asian-Americans Solidly Prefer Democrats (Andrew Duggan, Gallup, March 4, 2013)
Why Are Asian Americans Democrats? (Alexander Kuo, Neil Malholtra and Cecilia Hyunjung Mo, Politico Magazine, March 18, 2014)
Republicans on mission to win over Asian-American voters (Josie Huang, Southern California Public Radio, February 10, 2014)

 

Those Asian-Americans, who love welfare, medicaid, and food stamps; but not this guy. I believe that you have to work for living, Governments (Federal, State, Local) are not the problem solvers. I love country music and hangout with redneck folks. Wasn't born in this country, but served in the Marine Corps and continue to keep my honor, courage and commitment for the rest of my life. I AM REPUBLICAN!

 

Did you mean independent?

 

Asian tells me nothing...but Marine Corps institute leads me in a direction.

 

I'm republican, though only because I find 3rd parties remain an untenable solution. I'm a social moderate libertarian, with constitutionalists convictions and tea party sympathies.

I also self identify as a Christian, to that end I find some things morally improper, but I respect a persons right to be wrong...even God gives you a choice.

 

Registered Democrat since 1989. More conservative in many aspects, but more socially liberal as well. I'm not religous at all so the far right wing hates me for that and I'm not much of a bleeding heart type so the far left despises me for that.

 

I think the second article Jonathan posted gives a better explanation for why Asian Americans vote for Democrats.

 

Wow . . . . really . . . easy killer, pump your brakes. :slap:

 

I don't regret saying that! Your poll is simply making a lot of assumptions!

 

I have been independent for several years but in Colorado I can't vote in the primaries (thru for more than 30% of registered voters in CO). I plan on changing my affiliation just for the elections. In California an independent can vote for candidates of several parties.

 

Looking at this poll from a non-US perspective, it is fascinating to watch the presupposition of two-pole, straight-line politics. Most countries I lived in had either a single-party totalitarian or true multiparty systems.

The nearest fit for the US politics, in my layman opinion would be by the Political Compass' four directions layout (North - authoritarian, South - libertarian, East - right, West - left) on the social and economic axes. Even this lacks the dynamic involved with election decisions for rational people.

I have seen some fascinating representation of political spectrum, and finding a solution to predict and then visually represent always entertained me.

 

I had a professor that once explained that the link between education and party affiliation has a direct correlation. It was a concept I have never heard and it has resonated ever since.

His rational was simple. Uneducated people tend to follow in the footsteps of family members when it comes to political affiliation; parents happen to be XYZ, then their kids tend to be XYZ. However, people that are educated tend to be more open to external factors and are therefore more liberal by nature. However, being more liberal doesn't necessarily imply that they are completely liberal. They are just more susceptible to hearing out the issues of the day, and forming their own conclusion with voting down party lines.

His lecture always stuck in my head, so I was curious to test his theory to see how it resonates.

 

It's a good theory but do you honestly believe this test is valid?

 

It does not resonate.

This sounds like a two part conjecture (unless you can point me to scholarly research).

First, uneducated people are closed minded, and second presumably formal education opens the same's mind.

Both are on shaky grounds from my inductive inference.