"When I started doing research on charity, I expected to find that political liberals – who, I believed, genuinely cared more about others than conservatives did – would turn out to be the most privately charitable people. So when my early findings led me to the opposite conclusion, I assumed I had made some sort of technical error. I re-ran analyses. I got new data. Nothing worked. In the end, I had no option but to change my views."Arthur Brooks, the author of a book on donors to charity, Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth About Compassionate Conservatism, citing data that households headed by conservatives give 30 percent more to charity than households headed by liberals.
SOURCE: "Nicholas Kristof: Bleeding-heart tightwads" December 23, 2008.
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