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I think you are working with old data. In 2008 that was true, now it's the opposite. The median income of Democrats is higher than Republicans'. https://www.cn

I think you are working with old data. In 2008 that was true, now it's the opposite. The median income of Democrats is higher than Republicans'. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/19/economic-divide-in-the-us-is-becoming-as-stark-as-its-politics.html https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/19/economic-divide-in-the-us-is... I guess that maybe doesn't take into account cost of living differences and all that, though.

newacct583 6y ago
Gah, that's comparing districts, not voters! They're saying not that poor people vote republican, but that poorer areas tend to be red. Even within those districts, poorer folks vote democrat. It also runs afoul of the problem of using median statistics in a distribution that isn't gaussian. In fact per this quick article I found trying to check out the conclusion in your link, it's bathtub-shaped: both the poorest and wealthiest counties trend strongly blue. https://qz.com/1919592/why-joe-biden-will-win-rich-places-but-not-rich-people/ https://qz.com/1919592/why-joe-biden-will-win-rich-places-bu...