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Miscellaneous thoughts and ramblings
Monday, April 11, 2005
 
Interesting statistic
On cross-currents, in the context of chastising the view that Jews should be wary of Christians, Gedalia Litke writes, "...the two Jewish demographics most likely to have voted for Bush in '04 were religious Jews and intermarried Jews, i.e., the two kinds of Jews who, for better and worse, do not fear the impact of Christians on their life goals."

I hadn't heard that statistic before? Any truth to that? I ask because I am too lazy to look it up.
- served up by Ralphie @ 12:44 PM
Comments:
Also, Russian-speaking Jews who don't tend to be very religious or very intermarried. According to polls, between 75 and 82% of RSJ voted for Bush.
# quipped Blogger Irina Tsukerman : 1:03 PM, April 11, 2005
 
Hmmmm - an intriguing third rail.
# quipped Blogger Ralphie : 2:02 PM, April 11, 2005
 
See, it's no coincidence that I'm here. I've set out to prove the statistic! ; )
# quipped Blogger Irina Tsukerman : 6:12 AM, April 12, 2005
 
I'm surprised about the intermarried. I would have thought intermarried Jews tend to be liberal. I am sure it is nowhere near the percentage of orthodox Jews.
# quipped Blogger Michael Brenner : 10:06 PM, April 14, 2005
 
Hmm, well maybe the few conservative Jews out there tend to intermarry with conservantive Gentiles because they can't find enough conservative Jews to marry... : (
# quipped Blogger Irina Tsukerman : 6:44 AM, April 15, 2005
 
I'll try to get the numbers - I don't know them either. My completely off-the-top-of-my-head guess is that these two groups don't base their Jewish identity on fear of antisemitism, which is historically linked to the right for a number of reasons, even though it's associated with the left today. Old habits die hard, don't you know.
# quipped Blogger Ralphie : 10:47 AM, April 15, 2005
 
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