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"The majority of Americans, 58%, can be ideologically pigeonholed, but they are fractured among the four quadrants: 18% liberal, 16% populist, 15% conservative, and 9% libertarian. By far the single biggest group, at 42%, was . . . AMBIVALENT! A.K.A. non-
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Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevil
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I think the title says it all.
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Does anything do what its supposed to?
Funky Dung
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One bit of demographic info I wish the PEW study contained was how many places each respondant had lived in. My hunch is that liberals are more likely to have lived in multiple cities/regions while conservatives / populists are more likely to live in the same area their entire life. Not sure about libertarians.
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Posted 11 May 2006 at 11:21 pm ¶I'd probably have to call myself libertarian and I'm pretty well rooted in my region with no current desire to flit off to somewhere else. But that's just me.
The most disturbing thing about that survey is that 44% of respondents favored banning books with "dangerous ideas" from school libraries. But then, I'm the guy who has sold books to kids who wanted them, no questions asked, only to have their parents come back and return them because they find them objectionable. (But then, I'm also the guy who, when he was a kid, went down to the public library and actively looked for books on subjects that weren't discussed at home, e.g., sex, the occult, secularists, liberals, etc.)
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