More on the myth of Hispanic social conservatism
From the Pew Research Center comes more evidence that the open borders Republicans' nonsense about Hispanics being natural Republicans because of their putative "family values" social conservatism is just that, nonsense.
Pew conducted a survey earlier this year in which respondents were queried about their positions on seven areas of contemporary change in family structure that has occurred in the US over the last several decades. The seven are "more single women having children without a male partner to help raise them", "more unmarried couples raising children", "more gay and lesbian couples raising children", "more people living together without getting married", "more mothers of young children working outside the home", "more people of different races marrying each other", and "more women not ever having children". Respondents rated each of the items as being "good for society", "bad for society", or "makes no difference".
From the responses, Pew categorized participants into three groups of roughly equal size ("accepters", "skeptics", and "rejecters"). Accepters were the most likely to render the changes as being good for society and rejecters the most likely to render them bad for society, while skeptics fell in between.
The following table displays a progressive index for various demographic groupings, computed by simply taking the percentage of each group classified as accepters and subtracting from that the percentage of the group classified as rejecters. Thus, the higher the value, the more progressive that group is:
Hispanics hold far more 'progressive' views on the breakdown of the traditional nuclear family than blacks and whites do. Who would've thought blacks are even more natural Republicans than Hispanics are?! Hispanics are even slightly more progressive than self-described Democrats and those under the age of 30 are. Only the irreligious are more libertine in their views on the state of the family in contemporary America than Hispanics are.
Pew conducted a survey earlier this year in which respondents were queried about their positions on seven areas of contemporary change in family structure that has occurred in the US over the last several decades. The seven are "more single women having children without a male partner to help raise them", "more unmarried couples raising children", "more gay and lesbian couples raising children", "more people living together without getting married", "more mothers of young children working outside the home", "more people of different races marrying each other", and "more women not ever having children". Respondents rated each of the items as being "good for society", "bad for society", or "makes no difference".
From the responses, Pew categorized participants into three groups of roughly equal size ("accepters", "skeptics", and "rejecters"). Accepters were the most likely to render the changes as being good for society and rejecters the most likely to render them bad for society, while skeptics fell in between.
The following table displays a progressive index for various demographic groupings, computed by simply taking the percentage of each group classified as accepters and subtracting from that the percentage of the group classified as rejecters. Thus, the higher the value, the more progressive that group is:
| Sex | |
| Men | -8 |
| Women | +7 |
| Race | |
| White | -5 |
| Black | -1 |
| Hispanic | +25 |
| Age | |
| 18-29 | +23 |
| 30-49 | +2 |
| 50-64 | -5 |
| 65+ | -28 |
| Marital status | |
| Married | -15 |
| Unmarried | +16 |
| Political affiliation | |
| Republican | -38 |
| Democrat | +22 |
| Independent | +1 |
| Electoral status | |
| Registered voter | -7 |
| Unregistered | +19 |
| Church attendance | |
| Weekly+ | -33 |
| Monthly or less | +3 |
| Seldom/never | +34 |
Hispanics hold far more 'progressive' views on the breakdown of the traditional nuclear family than blacks and whites do. Who would've thought blacks are even more natural Republicans than Hispanics are?! Hispanics are even slightly more progressive than self-described Democrats and those under the age of 30 are. Only the irreligious are more libertine in their views on the state of the family in contemporary America than Hispanics are.
1 comment:
I assume, given that the survey was conducted by Pew, that this is a national sampling, not something limited to South Florida.
Living in South Florida we tend to forget that Hispanics on a national scale are of Mexican descent, not Cuban.
While it's good to get a factual basis for something that's long been considered "common sense" or an established assumption based on anecdotal evidence, I'd question the mental fitness of anyone who would actually believe that Hispanics are "natural Republicans."
Sure, in Miami-Dade we have a skewed perspective because of the Cuban-American community and the issues that led to that demographic aligning itself with the Republican Party. But that is an anomaly, not the norm. And it certainly is not representative of Hispanics on a national scale.
To sum up my post: this is old news.
Post a Comment