"People who squirm at the sight of bugs or are grossed out by blood and guts are more likely to be politically conservative," says a science section story at Yahoo! news.
Conservatives also tend to be tidy little people who keep their rooms clean. Liberals are often sloppier, or as the story says, "creative."
This kind of goes along with what I've known for a long time, that prudes are also usually church-goers of the conventional, orthodox kind, and that if a person is prudish and Christian, 99 times out of 100 he or she gravitates toward the political right wing as well.
No wonder people like that are upset by things like gay sex. It turns their stomachs upside down and makes them want to go to church so Jesus can tell them it's not right. Then they go out and vote for somebody who feels like they do -- nauseated.
Life would be so much easier if they just took Di-Gel.
A disgust-measuring study at Cornell University reports that "they surveyed 91 Cornell undergraduates with the DSS (Disgust Sensitivity Scale), as well as with questions about their positions on issues including gay marriage, abortion, gun control, labor unions, tax cuts and affirmative action. Participants who rated higher in disgust sensitivity were more likely to oppose gay marriage and abortion, issues that are related to notions of morality or purity."
So everything is related to everything else. That's not news.
The same story also links to another story about "A large, global study in 2007 (which) concluded that political preference is 50 percent genetic." I haven't read the study, but wouldn't the fact that most folks adhere to the politics of the rest of their families be just as likely to be the result of environmental factors as inheritance?
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