Lane Kenworthy has an excellent post up at the Monkey Cage building on Larry Bartels’ research and looking at the question of why low-income white voters don’t show more affection for Democratic presidential candidates. You really must read the whole thing for yourself, but this one chart is provocative enough that it should entice you in:
The point here is just to attend to the basic stability of the dynamic as well as to the fact that contrary to boatloads of conventional wisdom, the Clinton/Gore/Kerry era Democrats did better with this demographic than has been the postwar norm.
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