Title: What Makes People Vote Republican? | Edge.org
Headings: What Makes People Vote Republican?
What Makes People Vote Republican?
WHAT MAKES PEOPLE VOTE REPUBLICAN?
Reality Club Discussion
Howard Gardner
Daniel L. Everett
Roger Schank
James J. O'Donnell
Sam Harris
Alison Gopnik
James Fowler
Why do People Vote at All?
Social Networks and Voting Cascades
Experimental Evidence of Voting Cascades
Doing Your Civic Duty
The New Science of Genopolitics
Scott Atran
How Religion Creates Moral Society
What's Universal about Morality and What's not?
Michael Shermer

Content: it is also about binding groups together, supporting essential institutions, and living in a sanctified and noble way. When Republicans say that Democrats "just don't get it," this is the "it" to which they refer. JONATHAN HAIDT is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia, where he does research on morality and emotion and how they vary across cultures. He is the author of The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom. Jonathan Haidt's Edge Bio Page
Further reading on Edge: Moral Psychology and the Misunderstanding of Religion By Jonathan Haidt [9.22.07]
THE REALITY CLUB: Daniel Everett, Howard Gardner, Michael Shermer, Scott Atran, James Fowler, Alison Gopnik, Sam Harris, James O'Donnell
WHAT MAKES PEOPLE VOTE REPUBLICAN? What makes people vote Republican? Why in particular do working class and rural Americans usually vote for pro-business Republicans when their economic interests would seem better served by Democratic policies?