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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Point of this thread is that when an interest group collides with a family/pack structure, the latter wins. Women who vote against supposed women’s-interests aren’t “gender traitors” (an even more incoherent idea than race traitor). Either the whole pack swings feminist or not.
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The family is far too entangled and emotionally raw a unit to survive serious induced differences from bigger but weaker political structures. Expecting a member to vote in ways subversive to the family introduces potentially fatal tensions.
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Add kids, and test for big vs little diffs. Like R/D marriages vs within-D or within-R diffs.
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I've known several that were openly politically divergent and even more that were privately divergent. My intuition is opposite of yours. I suspect it's actually quite common.
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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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