While flipping through articles on the web today, I came across this little gem in Ruth Conniff’s latest column:
In Foreign Policy Magazine Phillip Longman, a fellow at the New America Foundation, writes that liberals, secular humanists, and feminists are going extinct. The reason is that people with liberal values are having no children, or only one, while conservatives and fundamentalists are breeding like mad–and creating a far more conservative future.
“This dynamic helps explain, for example, the gradual drift of American culture away from secular individualism and toward religious fundamentalism. Among states that voted for President Bush in 2004, fertility rates are 12 percent higher than in states that voted for Sen. John Kerry,” Longman writes.
We’re going extinct?
Actually, I don’t doubt that we’re being out produced. This article reminds me of an NPR story about how there are so few children left in San Francisco that most of the schools have closed, and couples that do have children end up moving out of the city so their kids can go to school. If I find the link, I’ll add it in here.
Seattle is headed in the same direction. I have not statistics to back this up yet but, based on what I read in the papers, it seems like most of the added population in Seattle is childless. The city is getting more populated, but the School Board is talking about closing elementary schools again because there aren’t enough children to keep all the schools open.
Come on people… Go make some babies! You need to raise some liberal kids so they can grow up and save America from the dark side.
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