The most important patriarchal institution is obviously the trad family. What isn’t obvious is that this is also the strongest. Unlike others, there is no market of substitutes or an impersonal state-based alt. Exit/voice is very weak. You cannot change families like jobs.
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White women voted roughly along partisan lines for/against Hillary and seem to be lining up similarly re: Kavanaugh. I can’t explain this any other way. Also your sample may be young. I think this likely gets stronger with length of marriages.
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Most of my anecdata is from middle aged couples with children living in a semi affluent suburb. Not talking about my peers. Talking about my parents peers.
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Perhaps partisanship in the present circumstances has gotten so high that there is less divergence now or more divorce or both.
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Yeah, the current situation must be an unprecedented stress test for many long-term married couples whose divergence hasn't really been tested before.
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same, though I don't know what I'd bet on re: %. I think maybe... 20% divergent? less than random (~50%) but not vanishingly uncommon
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I’ll modify that claim to “length weighted” Strongly divergent couples are unlikely to even meet let alone date stably long enough to marry. If/when they do, I suspect one will gradually convert or politics will become a serious faultline.
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I imagine in many of the subset of cases with differing politics, one partner (usually the wife?) just hides their politics and parrots their partner's openly but votes differently in private
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Or they’re resourced and selfish enough that it’s a game to them because they’re not personally affected. Or they’re shielded and have a “no politics at dinner table” type family culture.
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In my family my wife researches ballot and tells me how to vote. Occasionally flags minor ones where I might differ from her.
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that's so cute

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We are admittedly rather cute
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she's korean right? have ya'll watched Kim's Convenience? highly recommendpic.twitter.com/E1YBUPQeJW
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