did you know the only income bracket where the majority of the members voted in the 2014 election was people who make more than $100,000 a year? i didn’t.
Only in the most secure segment of Americans did Pew find that a simple majority planned to support Republican candidates. As financial security decreased, the category that benefitted most was not the Democrats, but rather “OTHER/NOT SURE” – indicating that the person being surveyed was not heavily engaged in the political process, and unlikely to vote:
John Halpin, an analyst at the Center for American Progress who runs its “States of Change” project, provided figures derived from the Current Population Survey to The Intercept that show how large the voting disparities are between whites without a college degree (typically referred to as working class) and those who graduated college. In 2010, for instance, turnout among white working-class voters was 41.9 percent. For those with college degrees, the turnout was 63.5 percent. In 2012’s presidential election, 57 percent of working-class whites participated, while 79 percent of those holding college degrees took part.
not voting makes you privileged
this is exactly why any framework for understanding the political demographics of the united states which is founded on the assumption that the majority of the people affiliate with the 2 party system (for instance the “red tribe/blue tribe” framework) is doomed to failure, since the reality is that most people are smart enough to know that both parties are trash.
also this neatly debunks the mythology of the reactionary working class (also a major plank in the “red tribe/blue tribe” framework)
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