Dr. Jason Weeden: A Social Analysis
When looking at demographics the situation is not just black and white. Although most upper class citizens tend to vote Republican and most lower class tend to vote Democrat, there are a few outliers to this claim. In states such as Kansas and schools such as Harvard Democrats win over the lower class whites by an inch rather than a mile (Weeden). Citizens with a high income tend to be more conservative when speaking on certain issues. In contrast people with a low income tend to be more liberal on certain ideas. But according to Dr. Jason Weeden, co-author of The Hidden Agenda of the Political Mind (Princeton University Press, 2014), people with more education tend to be more liberal on issues such as school prayer, immigration, and others.
This is because they have gained more knowledge through their path of education to where they can see all corners of the problem, allowing them to be more liberal on things. The contrast goes for people with less education. People who have a lesser education tend to be more conservative on these issues because “so long as they’re in the group doing the discriminating rather than the group being discriminated against” they feel safer and go against some of their views to feel that way (Weeden). Since they have a lesser education they only see a few sides to an issue, confining them to only the corners that they see. The correlation between education and income is complex because of the fact that when looking at income itself the claim of upper-class citizens voting Republican and lower-class citizens voting Democrat still stands. But when adding income and education together it is seen that that is only half true because education affects how much money one will make.
This is because they have gained more knowledge through their path of education to where they can see all corners of the problem, allowing them to be more liberal on things. The contrast goes for people with less education. People who have a lesser education tend to be more conservative on these issues because “so long as they’re in the group doing the discriminating rather than the group being discriminated against” they feel safer and go against some of their views to feel that way (Weeden). Since they have a lesser education they only see a few sides to an issue, confining them to only the corners that they see. The correlation between education and income is complex because of the fact that when looking at income itself the claim of upper-class citizens voting Republican and lower-class citizens voting Democrat still stands. But when adding income and education together it is seen that that is only half true because education affects how much money one will make.