Voting Stereotypes

Steven Pink points out that the American electoral map always revolves around the southern, northern and western blocks. Pinker notes that the souther and western states’ voting pattern favors candidates that promote military aggression, public religion, and laissez-fair economic ideologies. They tend to vote for private ownership of guns, valorization of traditional families and less tax. On the contrary the northern states tend to vote for candidates that support international relations. They vote for gun control policies, secularism and individual freedom in culture and sexuality. The article affirms that coherent mindsets dictate the diverse opinions in red and blue states voting pattern. Political analysits say that the ideologies of the

They articulate rational plans for good society and customs promotion. George Lakoff, a linguist, says that the political right view society as a family oriented under strict fatherhood. On the other hand, the political left, views society as a fmily under a natural parent guidance, the two views suggest that conservatives bas their ideologies on deference to authority and body sanctity. On the contrary, liberals restrict their ideoliges to fairness, care and avoidance of crime. Therefore Pinker notes that the ideas of the two wings reflects on custom, authority and sacred values of their societies. However, Pinker believes the divide traces back to the colonial era of the British settlement. English farms occupied the north while scots-Irish herder occupied the south. He notes that a culture of honor owes to society of header. The seulements’ ideologies influence the cultures of red and blue states today. In summary, Pink expresses that the American political factions lean much on difference in ideologies. The north and coast factions relates so much with Europe and state-driven civilization policies. The south and west conserve the culture of honor that emerged from the historis anarchic zones. These two variations shaped the voting pattern between observatives and liberals. The blue and red states axhibited differences in

I agree with his ideologies on conservatism and liberism, however, I think most of the political divide correlates to urban and rural counties. Most of the rural voters advocates liberty while urban counterparts chrish cooperation and equality. The rural-urban divide shapes the red and blue states ideologies. Nevertheless, I agree with the alaysts comments on cultural and historical characteristics as the influence for red and blue states. Third, the strength of the article shows where the author seems to place red states as those who fight for equality. They fight aginst social and race discrimination, which is one of the major political themes today. Whire republicans critic obama’s citizenship, religion and education, others condemn the act. Never before has Obama been hailed by folks from red states than his predecessors. This shows a shift of the political arena from divisivesness to inclusiveness. One of the weaknesses in his article is where he points south (red) states based on crime rates (gun freedom) to drive his point. On the contrary, not only red states exhibit crime rates as he puts it. Blue states such as Detroit and Chicago exhibits some of the highest murder and violent related