Liberal and Conservative Dating Preferences

How do you present yourself on your dating profile when it comes to politics? Does it affect your results?

The answer to this is yes, your political beliefs do impact your results.

But to what extent?

And what are liberal dating preferences and conservative dating preferences online? What do each look for in a partner?

According to a new study liberals and conservatives look for partners who are similar to themselves.

What Liberals and Conservatives Seek In Online Dating Study

The study, The Dating Preferences of Liberals and Conservatives, looked at dating profiles in 313 zip codes in the United States. The first five profiles of men and women were chosen within a ten-mile radius of each zip code.

2,944 profiles were used to determine the liberal and conservative dating preferences in the United States.

The data collected allowed them to compare how each individual described themselves across a number of profile characteristics; including race, religion, body type, education, income, relationship status, desire to have children, etc..

The data then showed how each dater’s stated characteristics compared to the characteristics of their ideal date.

Online Dating Study Results

When the results were tallied and analyzed, the 2,944 participants were broken down into the following political groupings:

Very Liberal – 1.6% of participants
Liberal – 8.8% of participants
Middle of the road – 56.6% of participants
Conservative – 15.5% of participants
Ultra-conservative – 1.5% of participants
Non-conformist – 2.0% of participants
Some other viewpoint – 11.0% of participants
No answer – 3.2% of participants.

The study speculated that the majority of people chose “middle of the road” in order to maximize their potential partners, meaning that people choose a neutral answer in order to reduce the risk of potential partners who would bypass their profile due to their political preference.

The study found, regardless of ideology, daters want a partner that shares their characteristics.

Liberals and conservative dating choices gravitate to people preferring to date others who are like themselves.

In addition to finding people tend to seek someone like themselves, the table shows that conservative daters are more likely to be males and are less likely to belong to a “racial or ethnic minority group.”

Liberals are younger, less likely to have been married, and less likely to have children. The study suggests that the liberal group of daters advances at a “different pace in the life course” than the conservative group of daters.

While liberals are better educated than conservatives, this does not translate into any detectable “income disparities between the two groups.”

More Study Findings

Aside from the finding the liberal and conservative dating preferences above, the study found more interesting facts.

Older, white, and more wealthy daters are more open to dating individuals with a different relationship status than their own.

Those who have never been married are more likely to want to date someone else who has also never been married.

Women and more well-educated daters tend to want a partner who shares their tobacco usage.

The results for race/ethnicity indicate that women, Whites, and Blacks are more likely to assort positively on race/ethnicity (the magnitude of this propensity is twice as large for
Whites).

Daters with larger incomes are more open to dating outside of their race.

Women are more likely to desire a date who shares their physique than men.

White and more well-educated daters are more willing to date outside of their own body type.

Final Thoughts

The liberal and conservative dating preference among online daters is to seek partners who are like themselves.

We want someone who shares our same interests, beliefs, and values.

If you truly want to find someone you will be compatible with you should fill out your dating profile with honest answers including your political beliefs.

As I have discussed in a blog post, women view men as more attractive when they share the same political beliefs.

You may find a better match by indicating your political preference!

Please leave a comment below for the liberal and conservative dating preferences because I’d like to hear your opinion.



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