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With each passing election, U.S. political campaigns have renewed their efforts in courting the "Latino vote," yet the Latino population is not a culturally homogenous voting bloc. This study examined how cultural identifications and acculturation attitudes in U.S. born Mexican Americans interacted with socioeconomic status (SES) to predict political orientation. Individuals who held stronger Mexican identity and supported biculturalism as an acculturation strategy had a more liberal orientation, while belonging to a higher SES group and holding stronger assimilation attitudes predicted a less liberal orientation. Mexican cultural identification interacted with SES such that those who held a weaker Mexican identity, but came from a higher social class were less liberal and more moderate in their political orientation. Weak Mexican identification and higher SES also predicted weaker endorsement of bicultural acculturation attitudes, which in turn, mediated the differences in political orientation. The acceptance of one's ethnic identity and endorsement of bicultural attitudes predicted a more liberal political orientation. In light of these findings, political candidates should be cautious in how they pander to Latino constituents—referencing the groups' ethnic culture or customs may distance constituents who are not strongly identified with their ethnic culture.

AbstractThe connections between narcissism and political orientations have been theorized by scholars and increasingly evoked by political parties, politicians, public intellectuals, and the media. Yet surprisingly little research has been undertaken to empirically asses the veracity of these claims. We address this lacuna by identifying the relationship between narcissism, political ideologies, and partisanship in a nationally representative sample taken days before the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Overall, we find those on the left and right are equally narcissistic. However, liberals and conservatives differ in which dimensions drive their narcissism. Specifically, we find that the entitlement facet of narcissism is uniformly related to more conservative positions, whereas exhibitionism is related to more liberal values, including political party identification. Narcissism, as a complex multidimensional construct, has an important role in understanding political ideology.

A survey of congressional voting records in the period between 1955 & 1960 indicates that the East is the least conservative section of the country, measured by att's on economy questions & foreign policy. This is true for both eastern Democrats & eastern Republicans. Eastern resistance to right-wing thought conforms to past history in the sense that the East is in the mainstream of US pol'al & econ life. The conservative strength in Congress is found in the southern Democrats & the mid-western Republicans. The South, no longer a monolithic spokesman for low tariffs & agri'al aid programs, now is more likely to speak for Standard Oil, Alcoa, & textiles. The extreme right-wing is at home in the small towns of the Midwest & in white-collar cities, where small business suffers the painful results of changes in the nat'l & local power structures. The liberal orientation of the West reflects a high degree of urbanization & the power of labor unions. Competition between pol'al parties in the East & West is more issue-oriented than in the South & Midwest. AA.