The intelligence curve and political affiliations!

The question that came to my mind while viewing an intelligence curve one afternoon was whether or not there was a correlation that existed between a person's IQ and there they fell on the political spectrum. Perhaps not surprisingly, there were studies that supported both concepts; that smart people gravitate both towards conservative values and liberalism and vice versa for those of lesser intelligence.

My personal theory is that party affiliation can be driven both by intelligence and by maturity in a temporal manner. That is to say, young smart people tend to be liberal and then as they age and become more monied, assume progressively more conservative values. On the other side of the spectrum, people of lesser intelligence tend to be of either political persuasion when young, but then tend to favor any political institution that will give them added support as they age and find themselves in in more challenging financial circumstances; ergo they tend to swing further left as time goes on. The end result is a stacking either left or right depending on age and financial status.