Alright, I have about a million problems with this "study" (and by a million I mean potentially more than one). Alright, first, there will NEVER, and I mean NEVER be a study that paints things as black and white as "If you're a rich whiney kid, you'll become a republican." You want to know WHY there will never be a study like this? Because it's not ****ing true, that's why!
I grew up in Evanston, IL, the first northern suburb of Chicago. If you've ever heard stories about the liberalness of the people in the northern suberbs, let me tell you, all of them are 100% true. Now, my town was mixed income, and by mixed I mean that in the southern part most of the people live below the poverty line, and once you cross South Blvd. every home is more that $400,000 and every rent is more than $1,500 a month, and it's not uncommon for a person to be worth up to about $20 million. Anywho, I grew up with these kids, about half the kids at every school I went to there was rich whiney kids, and almost all of them were FLAMING liberals. I went to a high school of 3,000 kids, and 2,500 walked out in protest of the war (and most of them were genuine in their dissent, since they all got charged with a ditch anyways), and remember this is back when 70% of the nation agreed with the war.
And the other of my millions of problems with this is just what it implies about whoever ****ing posted it. Whoever you are, you're an idiot, and you shouldn't be allowed to talk anymore. It is retards like you that have led to the election of possibly the most worthless government in US history. Do you think if there was a democratic candidate who wasn't backed with this constant Barbara Streisand bullshit trying to paint the world as if you don't like reparations you're a racist and if you voted for Bob Dole in '96 you might as well be Hitler, that George W. Bush would still be president? **** no. I almost voted for Bush, and I despise the guy, but I simply didn't want my vote to vindicate retards like you.
Sure there's reason to believe that perhaps rich whiney kids become conservative, but then you have to answer the question "where did the image of the New England liberal elite come from?" See, both sides try to paint pictures of the other side, liberals want people to believe that conservatives are all fat rich white men who sit in their shadowy dens lit only by the fireplace, which reflects like the flames of hell on the heads of the animals they killed on their latest hunting trip, and they sit scheming for the next way to make Tiny Tim's dad work through Christmas, and want people ignore the republicans who vote so because they are moral people who believe that free enterprise is what made this country great. And conservatives want us all to believe that all liberals are yuppies who graduated from Princeton without ever studying, and then waltzing onto the country club for the rest of their lives while living of Daddy's investments while their pot smoking gay teens wear ponchos and go to Bonaroo, and completely ignore the democrats who are moral and believe that it's the American urge to help those in need that makes America great.
The fact of the matter is whoever started this **** is ****ing retarded.