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WarGamer

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13. you should read this...
Tue Oct 1, 2024, 07:10 PM
Oct 1
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/polarization-of-the-rich-the-new-democratic-allegiance-of-affluent-americans-and-the-politics-of-redistribution/E18D7DAE3A1EF35BA5BC54DE799F291B

The New Reality: Affluent Voters Have Swung Democratic

For decades, scholars have noted segments of college-educated, professional, or middle-class voters trending toward the Democratic Party. Ladd and Hadley (Reference Ladd and Hadley1975) began describing an “inversion of the New Deal class order” (233) as certain educated voters in professional jobs shifted their allegiance toward the Democratic Party. Edsall and Edsall (Reference Edsall and Edsall1992) made a similar argument, describing the polarization between Republican and Democratic agendas on “race, rights, and taxes,” drawing some educated, middle- and upper-middle income white voters toward the Democratic Party. But through the latter decades of the twentieth century, Republicans were still most often winning higher-educated and higher-income voters, on average.

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