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November 1, 2024 - 6:30pm
Marital status has become a proxy for political beliefs, cutting across other factors in party affiliation including age, gender and class.
Republicans are more likely than Democrats to be married, at 65% compared to 50%, according to a new research brief from the Institute for Family Studies. The trend has grown stronger since 2000, when there was roughly only a 10-percentage-point gap, despite a decline in marriage for members of both parties. Further, the majority of married adults report being “very happily” married, but Republicans have an 11-point advantage, at 65% compared to 54%.
In this year’s election, one of the key stories has been the gender-based polarisation of voters, with young women shifting significantly to the Left and young men to the Right. The abortion issue has played into this dynamic. The new analysis, however, demonstrates that this only applies to unmarried women, and 63% of married women aged 25-44 are Republicans.
In response, Democrats are trying to win over married women. One new Kamala Harris ad, voiced by actress Julia Roberts, suggested that married women may need to hide their votes from their husbands, drawing on the narrative that the election is largely a contest between men and women. “In the one place in America where women still have a right to choose,” the ad says of the ballot box, “no one will ever know… Vote Harriz-Walz.” But this research undercuts that idea, revealing that a majority of married women are Republicans.
Married men under 45 are also more likely to be Republican than Democrat, at 55% compared to 42%. Much like the partisan gender gap, the partisan marriage gap is stronger for young Americans, particularly for those with university degrees.
The trend holds true when broken down by social class. Poor and working-class adults have seen a significant decline in marriage rates, but within this group the marriage rate is more than 10 points higher for Republicans in every age category.
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SubscribeThe briefest conclusion from this essay is that the progressives are undoubtedly degenerates.
The briefest conclusion from your comment is that you are undoubtedly a complete moron.
This is hardly a revelation is it. Older people are more slightly likely to be married than younger ones, and slightly more likely to be more conservative.
Republican states have a higher divorce rate than Democratic states, and that’s been true for a longtime. I’ll give you an example from my mother’s side of the family. My parents were Democrats, who had five Democratic children and zero divorces. My mother’s two sisters and brother were Republicans with Republican children—a total of nine. Every one of those kids had at least one divorce. I should add that all five of us kids are college educated, and none of my cousins went to college. Just a small example, but it’s telling.