# Why are Republicans generally more patriotic than Democrats?

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**Created:** [July 19, 2017, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-republicans-generally-more-patriotic-than-democrats/791627 "2017-07-19T05:03:49Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 19, 2017, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-republicans-generally-more-patriotic-than-democrats/791627/110 "2017-07-19T16:46:44Z")

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> [@iiandyiiii](#):
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> You left out his interesting points about insurance premiums.

Yeah, I remember those but I’m not sure exactly where to find them. I do know that the thing I hear most often from my Red State family when we are talking about healthcare is “I don’t understand why you care. Your healthcare costs aren’t going to be affected, what’s in it for you?”. And they don’t get it.

But I’m done with reasoned responses to Ditka, this is just another trolling thread like the 4th of July one. I remember a lot of Dems gave very well thought out responses about what their country meant for them and the response was just sort of, “Oh, you are all a bunch of overthinking navel gazers but you still hate America.”

And, BTW, The Chicago Bears suck.

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