OC_Colin wrote:
] Have you ever wondered why you vote the way you do? Why you
] adhere to a religion? Why you hold to a political philosophy?
] Well, our good friends at the University of Berkley have come
] up with an answer for this perplexing life question.
] Unfortunately, they only have the answer if youre a
] conservative. I think its obvious that the mud slinging is wrong on both sides. Honestly, I think its a matter of being urban or rural. If you grow up in the city you see other people's poverty as a source of most of the bad things about your life, you tend to be very culturally tolerant because your community is diverse and has lots of immigrants, and you see guns as something people use to commit violent crimes. You tend to look to society for answers because everyone is interdependent in the city. If you grow up the country you don't see as much poverty. You tend to be self reliant, and you expect it of others. You don't tend to be tolerant of people who are "different" because you rarely see them and don't have to live with them. It makes sense to you that kids should pray in school because God created the world and you've never met a hindu. You see guns as something you do on the weekend for fun and it pisses you off that someone might want to take them. And this is reflected directly in the votes. Urban places like California, New York, etc... tend to vote liberal. Rural places like Texas tend to vote conservative. These sides never really agree because they aren't coming at this from the same place and they can't put themselves in the other's shoes. It seems to be a frustrating argument most of the time: the country trying to impose its value system on the city, and the city trying to impose its rules of order on the country... RE: Josef Mengele Moves to Berkley | 
