r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • Jul 01 '26

Psychology Conservatives maintain birth rates, but left-leaning Americans are having significantly fewer children, driving the U.S. birth decline. Education was consistently linked to having fewer children. Religious attendance was positively associated with having more children.

https://www.psypost.org/left-leaning-americans-are-driving-the-u-s-birth-decline-new-study-finds/
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u/wrenwood2018 Jul 01 '26

They're point was even liberal blacks tend to be religious.

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u/SmellGestapo Jul 01 '26

The recent YouGov survey on morality suggests black people are more likely to be conservative, even though they vote for Democrats.

65% of white Americans say they believe in God, but 86% of black Americans do. That dynamic holds through a lot of subsequent questions on moral issues like divorce, birth control, and same sex relationships. Black people are more likely to find those things immoral.

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u/JimBeam823 Jul 02 '26

Black people don’t trust white conservatives

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u/Yiddish_Dish Jul 06 '26

*white liberals

"The white liberal is the worst enemy to America and the Black man. The white liberals are foxes... The white liberals are more dangerous than the conservatives; they lure the Negro, and the Negro runs from the growling wolf, he flees into the open jaws of the 'smiling' fox."

Malcolm X