posted by Rich Trzupek on Jul 4th, 2011
Patriotism, or at least the kind of patriotism that Americans associate with the 4thof July, is becoming the exclusive purview of the Republican Party, at least according to a Harvard study released last week. Key findings in the study conducted by Harvard Kennedy School Assistant Professor David Yanagizawa-Drott and Bocconi University Assistant Professor Andreas Madestam include:
- If someone attends a Fourth of July celebration before turning 18, it increases the likelihood of the young person identifying as a Republican by at least 2 percent.
- It raises the likelihood that parade watchers will vote for a Republican candidate by 4 percent.
- It increases the chances that a person will vote by about 1 percent and that they’ll make a political contribution by 3 percent.
The professors concluded that there is no point in a Democratic elected official attending a Fourth of July celebration because the nature of the event necessarily hurts the politician’s cause. The unpalatable smugness of the stereotypical left-wing academic was on full display as Yanagizawa-Drott and Madestam discussed how this state-of-affairs came to be:
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