This is an interesting study and an even more interesting extrapolation. With female babies slightly edging out males I think the Dems are in pretty good shape.From Fivethirtyeight.com...
The authors' key finding is that support for policies designed to address gender equity is greater among parents with daughters. This result emerges particularly strongly for fathers. Because parents invest a significant amount of themselves in their children, the authors argue, the anticipated and actual struggles that offspring face, and the public policies that tackle those, matter to those parents.
Our aim in this paper is to argue, with nationally representative random samples of men and women, that these results generalize to voting for entire political parties. We document evidence that having daughters leads people to be more sympathetic to left-wing parties. Giving birth to sons, by contrast, seems to make people more likely to vote for a right-wing party.
There must be something to this since Limbaugh, the leader of the Repuglican party, only has one brother and no sisters.
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