The Biology Behind Politics

Originally posted to Youtube - 30th January 2017

Colttaine - Geographical Bias?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNN7W0J9Vp0

TL;DR - Progressive Academic Echo Chambers 2: The Re-echoening
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgawQL-BuVc

------------------------ Data ------------------------
US Census Bureau
https://www.census.gov/support/USACdataDownloads.html

GitHub Tonmcg - County Level Election Results 2016
https://github.com/tonmcg/County_Level_Election_Results_12-16

------------------------ Heritability ------------------------
NCBI PubMed - Genetic Influences on Political Ideologies: Twin Analyses of 19 Measures of Political Ideologies from Five Democracies and Genome-Wide Findings from Three Populations
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4038932/

NCBI Pub Med - Heritability of the big five personality dimensions and their facets: a twin study.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8776880

------------------------ Regional Differences------------------------
CityLab - What Your Personality Has to Do With Your Neighborhood
http://www.citylab.com/housing/2015/01/what-your-personality-has-to-do-with-your-neighborhood/384462/

Alternet - Can You Guess a Person's Politics by Their Personality? Psychologist Team Says Yes
http://www.alternet.org/story/105089/can_you_guess_a_person's_politics_by_their_personality_psychologist_team_says_yes

The Secret Lives of Liberals and Conservatives: Personality Profiles, Interaction Styles, and the Things They Leave Behind
http://www.psych.nyu.edu/jost/Carney,%20Jost,%20&%20Gosling%20(2008)%20The%20secret%20lives%20of%20liberals%20.pdf

*note: It seems someone else has created an interactive 3D map showing the political outcome of the 2016 presidential election by county, showing “Margin of Victory”.
https://blueshift.io/election-2016-county-map.html