This link. The second to the last paragraph approaches an explanation why some vote Republican despite it being against their best survival interests.
Coincidently, they may be ones to deny natural selection, and evolution. Enslaved zombified minds, or imprinting at an even lower level than thought, explains a lot. Slave-making ants have evolved in ways that keeps their gene pool active. We, however are higher animals, driven by reason alone. Mistakes in imprinting likely would only apply to those driven more by passions than reason. Not us.