Conservatives match liberals' BMI at individual level despite fatter Republican counties.
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Stereotypes correlate 0.5-0.8 with objective data. Republican counties show higher obesity after controlling for education, poverty, race. UK Conservatives have 42% higher obesity odds than Labour voters. Conservatives' BMI exceeds Labour voters' by 0.88 points. Conservatives' BMI exceeds Liberal Democrats' by 1.04 points. GSS Republicans' BMI exceeds Democrats' by 0.4 points, r=0.03 p=0.07. ESS shows zero politics-obesity correlation, r=-0.0016 p=0.77. BMI distribution identical across political views. Controls for age, gender, country change nothing. Excluding Hispanics yields same marginal GSS result. County Republican support links to 0.02% higher obesity per 1% vote increase. Full 100% Republican vs Democrat county differs by 2 obesity points. Stereotype emerges from American patriotism confounding right-wing image. Conservatives tie to rural Christianity and lower intelligence, which links to obesity. Self-reported BMI reliable at r>0.9. Higher right-wing muscle biases BMI against conservatives. No constituency-level obesity link to winning party. Labour-Conservative difference fails raw significance. Positive right-wing stereotypes like mental stability exist. Media left-bias fails to explain accurate stereotypes.

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