Syracuse Post-Standard: Conservatives more generous than Liberals?

[Psephos]

Syracuse University professor Arthur C. Brooks is about to become the darling of the religious right wing in America - and it's making him nervous.

The child of academics, raised in a liberal household and educated in the liberal arts, Brooks has written a book that concludes religious conservatives donate far more money than secular liberals to all sorts of charitable activities, irrespective of income.

In the book, to be released next month, he cites extensive data analysis to demonstrate that values advocated by conservatives - from church attendance to two-parent families to the Protestant work ethic and a distaste for government-funded social services - make conservatives more generous than liberals.

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http://www.syracuse.com/news/poststandard/regional/index.ssf?/base/news-7/1162461303265550.xml&coll=1

Let the histrionics begin! ;-)

(Read the whole article, it's actually pretty interesting.)

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Well, most of the RW conservatives I know only gift to church-related

organizations....they must not have been included in his study, nor was I.