It’s not a mystery and we should listen to what they are saying, more clearly now than ever.
For a meaningful segment of the right in this country, Make American Great Again means returning to a time when men were the unquestioned head of the household and the primary responsibility of women was to procreate, raise the children and serve the husband.
That’s it. It’s not complicated and barely requires interpretation to get to the root of the messaging.
Oh the horrors:
Republican men and women are more likely than Democrats to say they are “very happy” in their marriages, according to a new report co-authored by University of Virginia sociologist
W. Bradford Wilcox.
The findings, released today from the Institute for Family Studies, challenge other studies and assumptions about family life and partisanship arguing that blue families are stronger and more stable.
Wilcox, director of the
National Marriage Project at U.Va. and a senior fellow at the Institute for Family Studies, and Nicholas H. Wolfinger, a sociologist at the University of Utah, analyzed data from the 2010-14 General Social Survey of men and women between 20 and 60 years of age. The study found that 67 percent of married Republicans reported being happy in their marriages, compared to 60 percent of married Democratic spouses (and independents).
Two previous reports from the Institute of Family Studies looked at the preponderance of marriage in red and blue states and a sample of 468 of the largest counties within states.
“Republicans are more likely to be married, less likely to be divorced and they’re more likely to say they are happily married,” said Wilcox, also a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.
The authors found that 57 percent of Republicans are married, versus 40 percent of Democrats. Forty-seven percent of ever-married Democrats have been divorced, compared to 41 percent of ever-married Republicans.
Wilcox and other researchers have previously argued that the benefits of a happy marriage include better physical and psychological outcomes for adults and better emotional and marital outcomes for their children.
“On average, more conservative counties across the country have more marriage, less non-marital childbearing and more family stability for their children than do more liberal counties,” according to the latest report.
“These data are cross-sectional, so we cannot be sure about the causal relationship between party identification, marriage and divorce,” the report adds.
The researchers controlled for several factors to see if the Republican advantage in marital satisfaction held up, including minority status, education and income, and religious attendance.
Race and religious practice account for almost half of the difference in Republican and Democratic marital satisfaction. In other words, more white couples replied they were very happy in their marriages than minority couples; couples that attended religious services together regularly reported being happy in their marriages at a higher percentage than those who don’t go to church. Level of education made the least statistical difference.
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