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Comment author: Swimmer963 12 January 2013 02:40:18PM 6 points [-]

People inherit their parents' politics, but largely through genetics.

This is an interesting and fairly significant claim. What is your evidence that it is true?

Comment author: [deleted] 13 January 2013 11:14:07AM *  5 points [-]

IIRC, there is a grain of truth in that, in that adults' political stances tend to largely depend on the Openness personality trait, which IIRC has about 50% heritability.

Edit: I'd guess what Openness predicts is one's position within one's local political landscape, so this doesn't even conflict with ArisKatsaris's evidence.