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« on: February 15, 2010, 07:04:30 PM »

Just goes to show that ethnicity is a much better indicator of voting beharior than income is.
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« Reply #1 on: February 16, 2010, 11:10:55 AM »

Has anyone ever seen/done an examination of the relationship between income and vote across all CD's? It's doesn't seem at all obvious what the graph would look like - my general understanding of the situation is that within pretty much every region of the country (except maybe the west coast), the richer areas are more R and the poorer areas more D, but that D regions overall are richer than R regions overall.

I haven't crunched the numbers, but I see little reason to believe there's any correlation between income and voting behavior. Both parties have plenty of poor and plenty of wealthy districts. Again, it's all about ethnicity.
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« Reply #2 on: February 16, 2010, 12:53:13 PM »


This. "White" is a completely meaningless construction. Take out Jews, Hispanics, etc. who identify as white and the pattern becomes even clearer.
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