@NYU2013 Ok, so you’re saying psychological studies have linked IQ to “racism” and psychological studies have linked lower IQ to “conservative tendencies.” Thus voting GOP is correlated to racism. Alrighty then.
When you get into notions like “tendencies” and psychological tests, I’m a bit skeptical. One of the articles I linked below questions the notion of going by tendencies. For example, African Americans voted overwhelmingly against gay marriage in CA, yet voted overwhelmingly for Obama in the same election. So how would you score their “tendency”? I thought you were talking about measurable correlations to voting patterns. I am not aware of any direct data between voting and IQ – not sure how that could even be collected since most people probably have no idea what their IQ is.
I do know that, dating back to the seventies, the least educated voters have consistently voted for the Democratic candidate in presidential elections. (There has been some fluctuation in the most highly educated sector, with that trending toward the democrats, but the least-educated have consistently voted democrat) I’m not saying that necessarily means they have lower IQs, but it is the only direct measure we have to voting patterns:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/139880/election-polls-presidential-vote-groups.aspx
Here are some more interesting articles on the subject:
http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2011/02/blue-state-and-red-state-iq-is.html
http://www.aei.org/publication/are-liberals-smarter-than-conservatives/
Anyway, I know we’ve gotten far off track from the OP, but I think it is important to question the prevailing wisdom.