It’s unusual, so I was wondering.
Conservative women are unusual? News to me.
I am a conservative for the most part, but I do agree with Liberals on some issues.
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Yup. I’m quite conservative. Surrounded by a bunch of conservatives, at least half of whom are of the female persuasion. If it’s a rare phenomenon, I evidently live in a concentrated pocket of 'em.
Paging Abbie Carmichael…
hey, what did happen to Abbie C?? No activity since May…
Changed her name to Serena Southerlyn, but nobody liked her.
I don’t mean to draw from stereotypes, it’s just that it seems as if more women are liberals than conservatives; it goes with being compassionate, etc.
And having a right-wing whacko woman like Ann Coulter barely exists outside of the Nazis or the Klan from what I can see. 
It’s just unusual for women to be nationalistic, holy war, every-man-for-himself types. Liberalism is more common.
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Here I am.
<Insert your own wisecracks here>
Well, I’m basically conservative, but not a whacko or anything. I like less government, less taxes, a strong military (yeah, I know, funded with what?), and I am in favor of the death penalty. However, lately I find myself increasingly at odds with my party over other things- I am all for gay marriage, a woman’s right to choose, etc
Maybe I’m libertarian now.
There’s my mom, my future mother-in-law, my future sister-in-law…actually, pretty much all the women in my family and my fiance’s family, with the exception of me and my step-grandma. Boy is that fun at parties.
Mostly conservative - all female.
All the women in my extended family are also card carrying Republicans.
I do realize that conservative women are not really the majority. The last election I looked at my voting record compared to the rest of my area and I was in the minority for every single demographic (gender, income, district, age, etc) except for religion.
I believe she stated that she wasn’t renewing for some reason or another.
I am, but why do you want to know?
Me too, but the issues I agree with them on basically boil down to: a. we need better safety technology on guns to keep kids safe b. any adult - human, obviously- should be able to marry any other adult they like; however I personally don’t see anything wrong with polygamy, which even some liberals hasten to exclude from proposed new/revised marriage laws c. social programs aimed at educating and aiding children are good, because that leads to productive, autonomous adults down the road. d. war, while sometimes unavoidable, should be the very last move.
Other than that I’m pretty conservative, prolife, in favor of the death penalty in certain circumstances, not in favor of AA as a race-based initiative rather than income level based etc. And I’m moderate compared to my mother. She and my father as about a right-wing as you can get while staying church-avoiding heathens.
Conservative women aren’t rare by any stretch. In some parts of the country, white women are majority conservative. That’s like saying Republicans are rare in Massachusetts. They don’t get much press (except the govenor) but they are a whole lot of them out there if you look.
All of the women in my famlily are highly educated and conservative economically and with the military.
I saw a t-shirt on the internet today with that quote from Ann Coulter right after 9/11 about how we should invade, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. This is not the kind of thing women usually say; in fact, I thought, most women are compassionate liberals. Yeah, it’s a stereotype, but there’s plenty of truth to it; I’ve been to a liberal political meeting w/ mostly women and a right-wing meeting w/ mostly men, and it’s actually a statistical fact- here, I’ll type from my old American Government (2001) textbook:
"Journalists often point out that women have ‘deserted’ the Republican candidates to favor the Democratic ones. In some cases that is true. But it would be more correct to say that men have ‘deserted’ Democratic candidates for Republican ones. The gender gap is the difference in political views between men and women. That gap has existed for a long time, and it is a problem for both political parties.
Holy crap, how’d I accidentally submit?
Anyways-
“A recent study found that men have become increasingly Republican since the mid-1960s, while the voting behavior of women has remained unchanged. In 1952 men and women identified with the Democratic party at about the same level, around 58 or 59 percent. In 1996 women still identified with the Democrats at about the same level, while men had abandoned the Democratic party and identified more with the Republicans.
The biggest reason for this shift seems to involve attitudes about the size of the government, gun control, spending programs aimed at the poor, and gay rights. Men have always been more conservative than women in their views on these social issues, but by the late 1960s and early 1970s men had changed their party loyalty to match their party policy preferences. In 1996 men and women were similar in their views on abortion but quite different in their opinions about welfare, spending money to help the homeless or to increase military defense, and sexual harassment in the workplace. In the 1996 election women were much more likely than men to vote for Clinton even though he had been involved in extramarital affairs. In 1998 women were much more inclined to vote for female Senate candidates. Part of the difference was b/c most of the women candidates were Democrats; in fact, in one race where the woman candidate was Republican, the male (Democratic) candidate got a bigger share of teh female vote than of the male vote. This gender gap is not unique to the US; it can be found throughout the world.”
So almost 10 years ago the percentage of women Democrats in the US was about 60%; how much of the other 40% (if that’s still accurate) are moderates and how much are Republican? If moderates make up even 10% of the remaining, that would mean only 30% of US women consider themselves conservative- even then, that’s not ‘rare,’ so I’m wrong on that at least.
But certainly extreme right-wing women like Ann Coulter are ‘rare’ (ie less than 5% of women in US). That’s a safe assumption?. But I figure that a poll on a board like this won’t bring up many of those, b/c they would probably be pressured to not speak up? Maybe?
Actually, I remember reading last fall, with women in the US, there tends to be a marriage divide. (And please, note the word “tends”) Single women tend to be more likely to be liberal, married women tend to be more likely to be conservative.
Women with kids tend to be even more divided (i.e., single women with kids are even more likely to be liberal than single women with kids, married women with kids are even more likely to be conservative than their childfree counterparts).
Well, don’t count me in with her bunch. I may be conservative, but I’m a conservative atheist, and don’t agree with an awful lot of her ideals. I have become more moderate with time - I don’t know if that’s my own age or the political climate of the country changing.