What's The Matter With What's The Matter With Kansas - Yahoo! News

What's The Matter With What's The Matter With Kansas - Yahoo! News: "In a fascinating paper called 'What's the Matter With What's the Matter with Kansas?', Princeton professor Larry Bartels uses data from National Election Study (NES) surveys to test Frank's thesis. He examines class-related patterns of issue preferences, partisanship, and voting over the past half-century. Bartels concludes that the white working class hasn't moved right and that 'moral values' are not pushing them to vote Republican.

Moreover, for the most part, voters' economic and cultural attitudes are either both liberal or both conservative rather than the bifurcated split Frank sees. Bartels also disproves the argument that there's been a long-term decline in turnout."