Chrisa798,
I don’t buy the New England apologetics in the Forbes article. From their own figures, New England giving = .013 X .85 = 1.07% of average income. Southeastern/Gulf Coast giving = .022 X .65 = 1.43% of average income, and from a lower average income to boot. If you can’t admit that is greater generosity, then …. The Boston Foundation says one must adjust for the New Englanders having higher taxes, but they voted for the tax-and-spend legislators. In the South, the view has been that government charity is less effective, and Southerners follow through on this view by being more generous privately.

Tcobb,
I have no illusions about the Left. My point was that their concern for the underpriveledged is unconvincing to the extent that they are less generous in charitable giving than conservatives are, and therefore they approach your voyeuristic “altruism” type.