Democrats are the party of the wealthy, IRS data show (education, money)
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Biden beat Trump in high income. Biden beat Trump in college education. Your own poll says so!
When I showed the pictures of Kansas City I was showing them merely as a local example of wealthy neighborhoods going big for Biden. It was YOU who decided to expand that to all of Missouri when you started mentioning the entire state of Missouri out of nowhere in posts 67 and 70. Maybe there's a lot of 100K income earners in rural areas in Missouri too, for all I know. Maybe some farmers, or something.
But Trump won the wealthy parts of MO too!
What don't you understand about this?
I just showed you the data!
He won ALLLLLLL income demographics in the state. Or do you still not accept that data?
You also stated that the "national" numbers favored democrats in high income areas and that "Missouri is probably not much different from the national stats." THAT's how Missouri came up!
Which again, I proved is WRONG! Way wrong.
You also said that there are a lot more rural poor people in the state....but again, well over 50% of the state is Urban and Suburban. Wrong again.
Thank you, you just killed your own argument with your own link.
In addition to the data posted in post #1, that is all anyone needs to know. Wealthy are becoming increasingly liberal.
My original claim in post #3 never even mentioned Missouri. And neither did post #6. The only reason you keep bringing up Missouri is because you realize you have lost the argument with your own link, in addition to the OP.
In 2012, something unusual happened. The wealthiest 4 percent of voting-age Americans, by a narrow plurality, supported a Democrat for president.
This hadn't happened since 1964. Before that, it hadn't happened since possibly the 1880s (scientific survey data for back then is, sadly, nonexistent).
So was 2012 a blip, like 1964? Or was 2012 the start of a phase shift, in which the Democrats replace the Republicans as the preferred party of the wealthiest Americans?
Democrats won back the House of Representatives in the 2018 midterm elections thanks to strong gains among the rich. What many pundits have described as a Republican rout in the suburbs is nothing less than the party’s sharp decline among the wealthiest American households.
Imagine all 435 House districts lined up from richest to poorest according to their 2017 median household income (the latest available data from the Census Bureau), Silicon Valley (CA-18) at one end and South Bronx (NY-15) at the other. Before the 2018 midterms, the richest 15 percent of districts was fairly evenly split between Democrats (38) and Republicans (28), but no more. Sixteen of the thirty-seven seats (so far) flipped by the Democrats are in this strata. In the new 116th Congress, these wealthiest sixty-six districts will be represented by fifty-four Democrats and just ten Republicans (with two races yet to be decided). Starting January 3, 2019, twenty (twenty-one if Katie Porter’s lead in CA-45 holds) of the twenty-two richest districts will be represented by Democrats. This year the richest House districts in eleven (and possibly twelve) different states flipped from Republican to Democrat (CO-6, GA-6, IL-6, IA-3, KS-3, MI-11, MN-3, NJ-7, PA-5, SC-1, VA-10; UT-4 is still not called). Going further, in five states (six if Carolyn Bourdeaux wins GA-7) the top two richest districts flipped. These sixteen districts plus five others from the wealthiest 15 percent that weren’t tops in their states contributed well over half the Democrats’ new seats. Without them the House would never have turned blue.
Of course, districts are not individual voters. Though rich districts turned to the Democrats, this does not necessarily mean that the richest voters did so. Digging into some 2018 local returns does suggest, however, that rich voters across the upper income spectrum chose the Democrats this year. For example, Minnesota’s third district—the state’s richest, covering the wealthy Minneapolis suburbs—showed one of the biggest swings in the country to the Democrats. Not only that, the richer the city the bigger the swing to the left. It is still true that the very richest cities in Minnesota’s richest district cast a small majority of their votes for the Republican. But six of the sixteen cities with median household incomes over $100,000 turned blue, including the two most populous.
In Charlotte, most of the wealthy neighborhoods in south Charlotte went for Biden, from single digit points to up to 20 points. All of Myer's Park went for Biden. Foxcroft went for Biden. The whole area around SouthPark went for Biden. Providence Plantation went for Biden. The only areas in south Charlotte that went for Trump were 2 areas around the Raintree Golf Club and Carmel Golf Club. And much of Mint Hill went for Trump.
Ditto Raleigh. All of Cary and Morrisville went for Biden! As well as Apex and a whole ton of wealthy areas around the RTP.
Last edited by James Bond 007; 04-28-2021 at 05:53 PM..
And this was your own poll which proved your own claim wrong:
In addition to the data posted in post #1, that is all anyone needs to know. Wealthy are becoming increasingly liberal.
My original claim in post #3 never even mentioned Missouri. And neither did post #6. The only reason you keep bringing up Missouri is because you realize you have lost the argument with your own link, in addition to the OP.
This may be the most retarded argument I've ever read here.
You're claiming the same article is WRONG about MISSOURI because it is right about the overall NATIONAL numbers!
HAHAHA!
Breathtaking.
If I post a picture of a blue sky and you call it red, I can't help you. All we can do is suggest psychiatric help.
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