Chuck wrote: > We really need some numbers that breakdown who the working class is and how > they vote.
Roughly, if one defines workers as those who over their lifetimes live off "labor income" (wages, salaries, benefits) rather than off property income (profits, interests, rents), then a fairly decent proxy for class is wealth ownership or even annual income. That said, among women, non-whites (especially Blacks and Hispanics), and young people (e.g. age < 40), workers are significantly overrepresented (compared to capitalists). With that in mind, these are very informative graphs and tables presenting data from the presidential exit polls: http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/results/president/exit-polls http://www.cnn.com/election/2012/results/race/president _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
