Monkey Cage reader Ken Wedding forwarded me this post at The Economist, which piggybacks on Jeff Frankel’s post noting that states where majorities voted for McCain in 2008 received more federal spending per tax dollar in 2005 than did states...
Posted in The Monkey Cage on April 6, 2010 11:39 AM
The Atlantic’s Chris Good says that it is: Gallup released findings today on economic confidence by state, and it appears anxiety doesn’t give a clear partisan edge one way or the other. Conventional wisdom says that an improved, or improving,...
Posted in The Monkey Cage on February 8, 2010 03:05 PM
Charles Blow revisits familiar findings: “red” states have higher divorce rates as well as higher rates of teen pregnancy and higher rates of on-line pornography consumption. He writes: While conservatives fight to “defend” marriage from gays, they can’t keep theirs...
Posted in The Monkey Cage on June 28, 2009 05:25 PM
…the counties where Republican margins grew the largest tended to be predominantly white places in otherwise racially mixed states. That is political scientist Eric Oliver, in this post at the Freakonomics blog. He is complicating the story of this much-discussed...
Posted in The Monkey Cage on November 19, 2008 01:53 PM
In this recent piece, David Brooks sees a nation divided: …some social divides, mostly involving ethnicity, have narrowed. But others, mostly involving education, have widened. Today there is a mass educated class. The college educated and non-college educated are likely...
Posted in The Monkey Cage on May 5, 2008 08:10 PM
A couple days ago, Philip Klinkner posted this analysis of the county-level vote in Iowa and found that Huckabee did worse in counties with more Catholics. (Henry Farrell and Matthew Yglesias also noted Klinkner’s results.) Some individual-level data would be...
Posted in The Monkey Cage on January 9, 2008 10:05 AM