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lumberjack_jeff

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4. I'm personally conservative too.

Reply to FarCenter (Original post)

Mon Feb 13, 2012, 12:24 PM

Feb 2012

I try to conserve resources, prudently steward the property I own, and set a temperate role model for my kids.

But I don't hate. I don't hate the government (especially since I have the wits to recognize that the government is me), I don't hate the <insert minority group here> and I don't hate thinking.

"Conservative" is being turned into a bad word by conservatives.

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This Is Why America Keeps Getting More Conservative [View all] FarCenter Feb 2012 OP

My gut feeling is that this is not accurate... simply asking people to self-identify with a label CurtEastPoint Feb 2012 #1

It looks like this Gallup poll data was based on self-identification FarCenter Feb 2012 #7

�one is a practicing polygamist and he�s not even the Mormon,� unblock Feb 2012 #2

Well, less educated and more religious is definitely a trend..... Avalux Feb 2012 #3

Religous "training" can backfire on them HockeyMom Feb 2012 #8

Exactly, I'll bet if you look at the poorest performing school systems in any state hughee99 Feb 2012 #12

I'm personally conservative too. lumberjack_jeff Feb 2012 #4

taken from the original article handmade34 Feb 2012 #5

I don't buy this....... Swede Atlanta Feb 2012 #6

But someone else may have Avalux Feb 2012 #9

notice the conservative states get more tax payer dollars than the liberal states.... madrchsod Feb 2012 #10

Different definitions of conservative. LiberalFighter Feb 2012 #11

If they had asked about specific issues instead of a brand, "conservative v liberal" librechik Feb 2012 #13