corporal punishment in school if you look at a map this is brilliant
uh... are member forest sent me this if you look at a map of the states that
allow corporal punishment in school it mirrors the states that mit romney one
almost exactly the the the visible exceptions to new york
colorado allows
corporal punishment in school but it went for president obama
and florida allows corporal pulp rope on this written school and by the slimmest
of margins
went to president obama new utah
uh... and held right you todd does not allow corporal punishment and it went
very very much very very strongly to mit romney
what is corporal punishment this is where
uh... school officials are allowed to punish students with physical punishment
this might be
typically it's striking this punitive specific number of times in something of
premeditated and set so for example
if you do acts you get hit five times with the ruler
on the but expert on the hands for example business i know that if you live
in the northeast
you may not even realize that this exists in schools and part and part of
this country but it does
the first country to prohibit corporal punishment was poland's seventeen
eighty-three
well i chatted with just out of curiosity a check in my home country of
argentina
initially banding eighteen thirteen
recon legalize really go eyes in eighteen seventeen lasted until the
nineteen eighties ok uh... what is the connection between being physically
punished
as a kid
and voting for republicans are we looking at causation are we looking a
correlation anytime we have something like this we have to examine that
also throwing
the most educated states voted for president obama baton let's see if we
can put that chart up as you can see here
if you look at what percentage of people over twenty five have college degrees
number one massachusetts
maryland colorado connecticut vermont new jersey virginia new hampshire new
york minnesota
all wet for president obama
look at the worst educated states
starting with a at the very bottom of the list west virginia mississippi
arkansas kentucky louisiana alabama nevada indiana tennessee in oklahoma all
but nevada
voting for mit romney so let's go back to the corporal punishment not for now
let's go through this and get back to the time you first what are we looking
at here in terms of
causation correlation relationship
i think this is just one of the many things that are prevalent in
conservative states
where there are a conservative people i think this has to do with how people
think
and the way people think is reflected in the state governments which is reflected
in the laws it's just a holdover in conservative america has a bunch of
holdovers from way back in in the early american days so what you're talking
about education high church-going rates and belief in god there are a whole
bunch of issues where we're just gonna find very all the reactionary ideas now
lewis let me go to you because it's very easy to point out some of these
combinations a lot of bass
food in the red states but that's just a socioeconomic et cetera and it's very
easy to say listen we have a correlation but we don't have causation however
corporal punishment is a little different because it is something that
children book
four-day votes before they're voting age
are subjected to
and eventually a higher percentage of them then and other kinds of states
end up voting for republicans
so with a little bit different than just say it's a socioeconomic thing we can't
determine any kind of causation
we've talked about
studies that show that uh... your upbringing has a lot to do with how you
vote sure and the children of authoritative parents
apparent authoritarian parents yet usually end up voting republican being
republican they're afraid they're punished
uh... the responds with oredi
and their submissive i guess you could say and certainly
corporal punishment in schools is equivalent in some sense to
authoritarian parenting in most cases the parents have to consent to it
uh... in many of these states so that i think is is exactly what's going on here
fascinating stuff
fascinating stuff thanks for for us to sending this to us very interesting to
look at