Our politics might be genetic, according to the Boston Globe. What does this suggest in light of my article about the so-called partisan imagination, in which being an artist makes one a liberal (or conservative)?
Studies: Political At Birth “Scientists are now discovering that our political attitudes have deep roots in our biology. Our place on the political spectrum – liberal, conservative, or in between – is powerfully influenced by genetics, new studies show. In the past year, researchers have demonstrated that the brains of liberals and conservatives are physically and functionally distinctive, suggesting that people on either side of the ideological divide are actually wired differently.”Boston Globe 11/02/08
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