previous findings that whiny kids grow up to be Repugs was investigated

by Congress. So this says. I got this as an email. Anyone recall this event?


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Subject: neocons were wimpy, spoiled kids
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 11:08:20 -0600
From: xxxx
To: xxxxxx



Study: Whiny insecure kids grow up to be Republicans
by John in DC - 3/23/2006 02:19:00 AM

More than a kernel of truth in this study. What do Bill Frist, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Limbaugh, George Will, Dr. Laura, the Republican bloggers all have in common? Whiny insecure brats. And that, my friends, comes from growing up a bit of a twit. Gary Bauer even admitted as much a few years back - grew up a wimp, been trying to fight back ever since (note to Gary: you're still gayer than me.)

Remember the whiny, insecure kid in nursery school, the one who always thought everyone was out to get him, and was always running to the teacher with complaints? Chances are he grew up to be a conservative.

At least, he did if he was one of 95 kids from the Berkeley area that social scientists have been tracking for the last 20 years. The confident, resilient, self-reliant kids mostly grew up to be liberals.

The study from the Journal of Research Into Personality isn't going to make the UC Berkeley professor who published it any friends on the right. Similar conclusions a few years ago from another academic saw him excoriated on right-wing blogs, and even led to a Congressional investigation into his research funding.

Especially if the bad news hits close to home.

How to spot a baby conservative
KID POLITICS | Whiny children, claims a new study, tend to grow up rigid and traditional.
Future liberals, on the other hand ...
Mar. 19, 2006. 10:45 AM
KURT KLEINER
SPECIAL TO THE STAR

". . . The study from the Journal of Research Into Personality isn't going to make the
UC Berkeley professor who published it any friends on the right. Similar conclusions
a few years ago from another academic saw him excoriated on right-wing blogs, and
even led to a Congressional investigation into his research funding.

But the new results are worth a look. In the 1960s Jack Block and his wife and fellow
professor Jeanne Block (now deceased) began tracking more than 100 nursery school
kids as part of a general study of personality. The kids' personalities were rated
at the time by teachers and assistants who had known them for months. There's no
reason to think political bias skewed the ratings — the investigators were not
looking at political orientation back then. Even if they had been, it's unlikely
that 3- and 4-year-olds would have had much idea about their political leanings.

A few decades later, Block followed up with more surveys, looking again at personality,
and this time at politics, too. The whiny kids tended to grow up conservative, and
turned into rigid young adults who hewed closely to traditional gender roles and
were uncomfortable with ambiguity. . . "

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our country "Didn't get enough love as a child" appears to be spot on. Parents, teachers and classmates don't like the whiny kids. And, whiny kids turn into adult bullies.