I ran across a well-written piece over at a blog I would not normally visit today. It's nice to see that at least a few people on the other side of the blogosphere grok why many Jews do not feel comfortable voting Republican.
In brief:
The first is that Jews tend to be very intimidated by evangelical Christians. Jews as a whole don't really try to convert people and evangelicals are all about evangelizing and converting. Big culture clash there.[snip]
The second is that Jews are a minority culture. When Christians start talking about faith-based initiatives, Jews realize that anything they do is going to be overwhelmed by the vastly Christian majority.
Indeed. These are not the only reasons, of course, but they are very pertinent ones. (Yglesias offers a few more).
It would be nice if more folks in Red-State Blogville "got it". Volokh twice suggests that Jews have some racial or genetic predisposition to be liberals, a suggestion I find offensive and even potentially frightening. But expecting rationality from far-right wingnuts like him is probably too much to ask.
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Volokh twice suggests that Jews have some racial or genetic predisposition to be liberals, a suggestion I find offensive and even potentially frightening.
Well to be fair, most of the Volokh conspiracy bloggers are Jews. He might have been a little tongue in cheek there.
Posted by Jeff the Baptist | November 15, 2004 1:11 PM