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> Richer people are more often Republicans. I'm confused. According to this graph, at each income, there are always more Democrats than Republicans, no? How do
by notfed 3y ago
> Richer people are more often Republicans.
I'm confused. According to this graph, at each income, there are always more Democrats than Republicans, no? How does this get interpreted as "Richer people are more often Republicans"?
- 4death4 3y agoThe slope of the increase for democrats also appears steeper than the slope for republicans as wealth increases past 100k. So the graph's title "richer people are increasingly republican" doesn't seem accurate either. There is a clear inflection point in the graph around 100k.
- gymbeaux 3y agoThe wording is a bit confusing. They mean that as income increases, the number of republicans increases, while democrats remain more or less constant across income levels. In other words, poor people tend to be D and rich people are more like to be R (but there are still many Ds) - *according to this graph*
- n2d4 3y ago> They mean that as income increases, the number of republicans increases, while democrats remain more or less constant across income levels. According to the graph, this is only true until $100k, which is when the number of Democrats increases faster again
- gymbeaux 3y agoSure, and that in itself is an interesting observation, but they’re obviously speaking to the entirety of the graph. I’m not the author and I think the correlation is relatively weak, I’m just trying to explain what they were going for.
- remram 3y agoThe wording is not confusing, unless you mean that the author is confused. This statement is just false.
- gymbeaux 3y agoThe graphs aren’t very clear and the wording could be better. The author isn’t coming out of left field, but the correlation isn’t that strong per the graph. Nevertheless, it’s an interesting observation and I’m glad they highlighted it.