{"id":3307,"date":"2005-05-27T10:22:13","date_gmt":"2005-05-27T18:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/05\/27\/why-republicans-always-win\/"},"modified":"2005-05-27T10:22:13","modified_gmt":"2005-05-27T18:22:13","slug":"why-republicans-always-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/27\/why-republicans-always-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Republicans always win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tthe Vdare Blog offers a simple and <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.vdare.com\/archives\/2005\/05\/08\/affordable-family-formation-the-neglected-key-to-gops-future\/\">cogent explanation for recent Republican victories:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The key reason why some states vote Republican, I\u2019ve found, can be summed up in the three-word phrase:<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Affordable Family Formation.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nIn parts of the country where it is economical to buy a house with a yard in a neighborhood with a decent public school, you\u2019ll generally find more Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ll find less in regions where it\u2019s expensive.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a stereotype that a mortgage, marriage, and babies tend to make people more conservative.<\/p>\n<p><em>But it\u2019s a true stereotype.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It makes more sense than the Air America theory: false consciousness instilled by the right-wing New York Times.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the Vdare Blog offers a simple and cogent explanation for recent Republican victories: The key reason why some states vote Republican, I\u2019ve found, can be summed up in the three-word phrase: Affordable Family Formation. In parts of the country where it is economical to buy a house with a yard in a neighborhood with a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/27\/why-republicans-always-win\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why Republicans always win&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-Rl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}