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 dist

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...