Dennis Prager has a fascinating column today that's bound to bring a lot of grief his way. There's a lot to chew on here, but the facts are decidedly on his side.

According to Prager, there is a substantial gap between the voting habits of single and married women. The single women are much more likely to vote Democrat, and the married ones tend to vote Republican. The primary reason?

"...[W]omen's nature yearns for male protection," Prager says. I can hear the feminsts gasping as they read this. But, Prager says, even those feminists prove his point:

Extremely wealthy women almost always seek to marry men who are even wealthier than they are. Actress Jane Fonda had more money than almost anyone in America, yet she married Ted Turner, a man who had even more money than she. Though fabulously wealthy and a feminist, Ms. Fonda nevertheless could not shed her female nature.

Prager says that this urge is so primal that it almost completely accounts for the destruction of the family among the poorest communities:

Given women's primal desire to be protected, if a woman has no man to provide it, she will seek security elsewhere -- and elsewhere today can only mean the government. In effect, the state becomes her husband. . . .The welfare state simply rendered many black men unnecessary and therefore undesirable as spouses: Why marry when you can get more benefits from the state while remaining single (and get even more money if you have children while remaining single)?

Thus, the single woman, seeking a husband, votes Democrat so that the government can be her provider and protecter. When she marries, however, all this changes:

...[H]er need for the state not only diminishes, she now begins to view the state as inimical to her interests. For the married woman, especially if she has children, two primal urges work against her having a pro-big government attitude. Her urge to be protected, which is now fulfilled by her husband, and her primal urge to protect her nest are now endangered by the government, which as it grows, takes away more and more of her family's money.

Thus, she begins to vote conservative. For good measure, Prager provides a second major reason as well:

The other reason married women are less likely to be liberal and vote Democratic relates to maturity and wisdom.

Just about everyone -- a man as much as a woman -- is rendered more mature and wiser after marrying. . . . Am I implying that increasing one's maturity and wisdom works in favor of the Republicans and against liberalism and the Democrats? Absolutely.

You have to give him credit for having guts. Among men, the phrase "church bells" would probably come up. I love the truth of what he says, and even more, I love the sound of shrewish feminist battle-axes screaming.