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Conservatism In America

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United States Presidential Election is not directly elected by the voters, but electoral candidate votes. That is the reason why over half voters vote Hillary Clinton but Donald J. Trump became the 45th president of the United States. Massachusetts supported Democratic party in the presidential election 2016 with more than sixty percent approval rating without a doubt. In history from 1928 to 2016, Massachusetts has voted 19 times to democratic party and four times to Republic party. Why Massachusetts becomes a real deep-blue state in just shy of past two hundred years?There are three texts illustrate this phenomenon from historical factor and human factor.
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Most Americans with higher education have become more and more freedom in the past few decades. Much delicate evidence proves that college could extend students’ tolerance so that they could own more freedom attitudes on social issues about accepting nation differences and refusing gender discrimination (Kurtzleben.) Then, Kurtzleben lists three reasons why this might happen. First, the whole country is becoming more ideologically polarized. People with higher education tend to be a more consistent ideology; this could mean that they particularly easily affected by polarization forces (Kurtzleben.) Second, women are another possibility, it is likely to be more and more women get college and advanced degrees, and women usually tend to vote for Democrats than men (Kurtzleben.) The third reason is insularity. Easy to see, if all your friends have strong willing to support democratic party, and you can quickly change mind from Republic party to Democratic party (Kurtzleben.) Kurtzleben claims why the majority of highly educated people more liberal than ordinary citizens from polarization, women and insularity …show more content…

For example, some research finds that gay marriage owns more supports among highly educated students in U.S., on the contrary, non-college people could not accept this new type of marriage (Callahan.) More exactly, Massachusetts was the first state in the United States where passed the law to permit gay marriage, because education could help people more likely to accept different points of view and many other types of individuals, tolerance -the key foundation of social liberalism (Callahan.) Massachusetts has the majority of international students. Low level of education, by contrast, voters- base on research- are more likely to accept intolerant, arrogant, and regulating social behavior. Therefore, in common, most white American who have no bachelor's degree more likely to live in the countryside or small town. They tend to own static political preference to support the Republic party, and they become the core of the Republican party. Moreover, most American education students have grown up, and after people live in the liberal cultural metropolis for a long time, your environment could affect things you believed ever. In Kurtzleben’ article, he explains the reason why

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