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« Reply #25 on: December 03, 2004, 09:06:47 PM »

I thought Oakland County, MI was in the top 10. Either it no longer is, or lists that I've seen putting it 3rd or 4th used a different standard. In any event, it went narrowly for Kerry.
Yeah, I think when I grew up there it was in the top five. And only because of one town: Bloomfield Hills currently has a median family income of well over $200,000.
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« Reply #26 on: December 04, 2004, 12:49:57 PM »

That is an extremely simplstic way of looking at it.  Cost of living varies greatly thoughout the country.  Someone making $50,000/yr lives a lot more comfortably in a state like Alabama than in a state like New York.

I'd hardly call living in Alabama comfortable.  More like torture.
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« Reply #27 on: December 05, 2004, 09:07:06 PM »

Teton County, Wyoming: Bush/Cheney - 5,124 - KERRY/EDWARDS - 5,972
Bush got 52 % in Teton county in 2000. What happened? Liberals moving from the coasts? 

What kind county is it? Yeallowstone is there that all I know.
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« Reply #28 on: December 05, 2004, 09:34:59 PM »

Teton County, Wyoming: Bush/Cheney - 5,124 - KERRY/EDWARDS - 5,972
Bush got 52 % in Teton county in 2000. What happened? Liberals moving from the coasts? 

What kind county is it? Yeallowstone is there that all I know.

It's a skiing resort area. We flipped a lot of these for some reason (i.e. Mono County and Alpine County in California.)
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« Reply #29 on: December 05, 2004, 10:42:14 PM »

 The Supper Rich people were split, But leaning bush.
 Middle class went for Bush. and Lower class went for Kerry.
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« Reply #30 on: December 06, 2004, 03:02:18 AM »

According to median income from the 2000 Census:

1 Douglas, CO (Bush 66.5%, Kerry 32.7%)
2 Fairfax, VA (Bush 45.9%, Kerry 53.2%)
3 Loudon, VA (Bush 55.7%, Kerry 43.6%)
4 Hunterdon, NJ (Bush 59.8%, Kerry 39.1%)
5 Los Alamos, NM (51.9% Bush, 46.5% Kerry)
6 Morris, NJ (Bush 57.5%, Kerry 41.7%)
7 Somerset, NJ (Bush 51.7%, Kerry 47.4%)
8 Santa Clara, CA (34.7% Bush, 64.1% Kerry)
9 Howard, MD (44.6% Bush, 54.0% Kerry)
10 Putnam, NY (57.4% Bush, 41.3% Kerry)
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« Reply #31 on: December 06, 2004, 03:25:30 AM »





Correlation? Nah
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« Reply #32 on: December 06, 2004, 08:09:34 AM »

There tends to be a correlation within smaller areas... everything is relative.
Someone in NJ can do the same job and get more money for it than someone in KY but be poorer.
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« Reply #33 on: December 07, 2004, 02:49:09 AM »


There seems to be a correlation if you ignore the Bush states, and just look within the Kerry states.
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« Reply #34 on: December 07, 2004, 04:53:39 AM »

There tends to be a correlation within smaller areas... everything is relative.
Someone in NJ can do the same job and get more money for it than someone in KY but be poorer.

Very good point.  The NE is ridiculously expensive.  Housing prices and rent are absurdly high.  Taxes kill the NE because we make more money but a lot of things cost so much more.  In the neigbor hood I grew up in a bungelow- a beach house that people only used to live in during summer, cannot be had for under $300,000.  The average house in Nassau County is now over 400,000.  People may make more money but that doesn't necessarily mean they are doinig better.  It is all relative.
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