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Anyway, awesome statistical romp -- Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State: Why Americans Vote the Way They Do, by Andrew Gelman
Anyway, awesome statistical romp -- Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State: Why Americans Vote the Way They Do, by Andrew Gelman
Commentators on both the left (Thomas Frank) and the right (David Brooks) have theorized about why working-class Kansas farmers and latte-sipping Maryland suburbanites vote against their economic interests. Gelman says, 'Both sides on this argument are trying too hard to explain something that's simply not true.' The real paradox, he says, is that while rich states lean Democratic, rich people generally vote Republican; while poor states lean Republican, poor people generally vote Democratic.
(Alan Cooperman Washington Post Book World )
(Alan Cooperman Washington Post Book World )