What are the 10 richest counties in America?

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Kerry tended to win donor counties.
Bush tended to win welfare counties.

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Bush tended to win donor people.
Kerry tended to win welfare people.

Explain to me how Kerry got those numbers in Marin and New York counties with only the votes of poor people.

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I didn't say only poor people voted for him.

Bush tended to win people who actually carry the tax burden. Kerry tended to win people who carry a lot less of the tax burden.

Talking about "welfare counties" is BS. If a county has one rich guy and nine poor people, it's going to be giving away a lot of money. Well, the 9 poor people probably voted for Kerry. Guess what? They're not the ones being ripped off.

The bay area has some very wealthy communities (ranked by median income), and they went for Kerry. Trust me, there are lots of donor Kerry voters in the SF, LA, NYC, and Boston areas.

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I know the numbers are too small to look into this, but I would curious about the voting habits of those who make over $500,000 a year, over $1,000,000 a year, over $5,000,000 a year.

I wonder if there's a regression line back to the Democrats, as these incomes go up.  Over time, I've found that small business owners tend to fall in the $200,000-1,000,000 a year bracket and they are the most concerned about economic issues than nearly any other group.  They also tend to make up a huge amount of the members of this income bracket.  And they vote Republican heavier than almost any other group.

I wonder at what point does money become less of a concern and social issues more of one as you go up the economic scale.

It might. You've got Michael Eisner, George Soros, Warren Buffett, and plenty of other really rich Democrats.

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Correlation? Nah

There seems to be a correlation if you ignore the Bush states, and just look within the Kerry states.