Once upon a time, I used to love reading David Brooks.
After the 2004 election, he wrote "The New Red Diaper Babies".
It is a fascinating look at how the red states are having babies and the blue states are not: You can see surprising political correlations.Sooner or later, voters get old and die. They are replaced by new voters.
As Steve Sailer pointed out in The American Conservative, George Bush carried the 19 states with the highest white fertility rates, and 25 of the top 26. John Kerry won the 16 states with the lowest rates.
In The New Republic Online, Joel Kotkin and William Frey observe, "Democrats swept the largely childless cities -- true blue locales like San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Boston and Manhattan have the lowest percentages of children in the nation -- but generally had poor showings in those places where families are settling down, notably the Sun Belt cities, exurbs and outer suburbs of older metropolitan areas."
I can not guarantee that "red state babies" will grow up to be Republicans.
However, I can guarantee that there will be more young people growing up in places like Texas than New Jersey.
What does it all mean politically? Let's wait and see. However, I'd rather be on the side that has more babies!
Here is a recent book by David Brooks:
