{"id":845,"date":"2006-09-14T05:26:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-14T11:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2006\/09\/14\/correlation-between-earning-disparity-and-voting\/"},"modified":"2006-09-14T05:26:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-14T11:26:00","slug":"correlation-between-earning-disparity-and-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2006\/09\/14\/correlation-between-earning-disparity-and-voting\/","title":{"rendered":"Correlation between earning disparity, and voting."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found this amazing blurb in the latest issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/\">The Atlantic<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;&#8230;<strong> rich people in poor states are much more likely to vote Republican than rich people in well-off states<\/strong>&#8230; as a state&#8217;s average income rises, the correlation between being wealthy and voting Republican disappears. In Connecticut, for example, there is almost no connection between income and voting behavior: both the poor and the rich tend to vote for Democratic candidates.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s just me that finds that a bit amazing, but I think it says a lot about the platforms of the two major parties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this amazing blurb in the latest issue of The Atlantic: &quot;&#8230; rich people in poor states are much more likely to vote Republican than rich people in well-off states&#8230; as a state&#8217;s average income rises, the correlation between being wealthy and voting Republican disappears. In Connecticut, for example, there is almost no connection [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf4VN-dD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}