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Is there evidence that left wingers tend to be more as affluent than right wingers? Genuinely asking.

• marcosdumay 2y ago
  Yes. Highly educated people tend to the left, and education is highly correlated to income. But both correlations reverse after some level of wealth.
• evilduck 2y ago
  Not really anything dramatically lopsided, but potentially the opposite of their assertion: https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/04/09/partisanship-by-family-income-home-ownership-union-membership-and-veteran-status/ https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/04/09/partisanship... I can't find a source right now but I think there's some lines to draw between jobs we consider "prestigious" and party affiliation but it's not the same line to draw with wealth, i.e. a professor is considered a more prestigious role than a plumber even though the plumber likely makes more.
• rtkwe 2y ago
  Even absent the income differences the main market has been the left in the US and the US right has been explicitly anti-EV for years.
• palmotea 2y ago
  > Is there evidence that left wingers tend to be more as affluent than right wingers? Genuinely asking. Yes, just read the articles about the Democrats losing the working class. There's lot of evidence and analysis in them on your very question. IIRC, the Democrats have been tuning more and more into educated, affluent people, and those people have been tuning into liberal positions on culture war issues. These are the people who inhabit the influential positions of the party, and they set the agenda to resonate with themselves (e.g. student loan forgiveness). That caused them to lose sight of the traditional working class, and thus shed working class support.