School vouchers

I'm going to go a little off topic and post about school vouchers. David was kind enough to share an article with me about public opinion and vouchers. The article contained the following confusing chart:

Yglesias reaches the following conclusions:

The primary driver here seems to be religion. White evangelicals and Catholics (both Latino and white) want the government to pay for them to go to religious schools. South blacks are dubious about vouchers because they see them as a backdoor resegregation policy but elsewhere poor blacks like them. Mainline Protestants and non-evangelicals are happy attending non-religious schools and don’t seem interested.

As with most things on the internet, the linked post is part of a long conversation. I'll link it up in order below:

The conversation started with Matt Ridley's Wall St. Journal article Free-Market Solutions to Overweight Americans.

Then it was commented on by Tyler Cowen at the excellent Marginal Revolution.

Tyler Cowen has the status of Blog-father in the politico-econo-blogosphere so everyone is required to react.

Which brings us to the Yglesias post linked above. You can read or not at your leisure.

I'll get to that teacher post at some point I promise.