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Originally Posted by Munchkin03
I read that article too, and in some of the "red" states, it's been my experience that race, and not income, informs political leaning. Think about Mississippi. It's one of the poorest states, yet it still delivered 60% of its votes to Bush in 2004. Roughly 65% of its population, however, is white; since we all know that African-Americans are the most reliable Democratic voters, it's safe to surmise that a good chunk of those who voted for Kerry are black. Are the wealthiest Mississippians (many of whom aren't wealthy by Coastal Californian/NYC/Boston/DC/Chicago standards) going GOP? Probably, but there are still a ton of poor people, most likely white, voting Republican there.
I'm probably just shooting from the hip here at this point, but race probably has a stronger correlation with income AND political stance in the "red" states than it does on either coast, which indicates why "poorer" whites are voting Republican there.
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I thought the same thing but since I posted so much about race in Georgia in the other thread, I didn't want people to think I was obsessed.
One would have to be able to tease out other demographic factors to see how much income really matters. Party loyalty, I think is a self-perception and world view thing as much as an income thing, and other factors that contribute to self-perception and world view may matter a lot more than income at the time of a particular election.
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