Actually, here's the proportion of GOP voters who are white and working class. Most GOP voters are affluent. Tweet added by Noam Lupu @NoamLupu

Noam Lupu

@NoamLupu

3 years

Actually, here's the proportion of GOP voters who are white and working class. Most GOP voters are affluent.

Senator Ted Cruz

@SenTedCruz

3 years

The Republican Party is not the party of the country clubs, it’s the party of hardworking, blue-collar men and women.

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22K

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Noam Lupu

@NoamLupu

3 years

This is from my paper with @Nick_Carnes_ on white working class voting, which coincidentally got published just today:

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Noam Lupu

@NoamLupu

3 years

Also, Donald Trump literally lives in a country club

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41

Robert Benjamin

@hooltheworld

3 years

@NoamLupu @saletan Man that uptick starting in 2008 though. Could pin that on the piss poor response to the financial crisis but could - might - possibly - be another factor???

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Anthony McDonnell🇺🇦

@apmcdonnell

3 years

@NoamLupu While its a swing demographic, this is still much higher than makes sense to me!

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ArtistLike

@Artistlike

3 years

@NoamLupu @MelissaJPeltier It's certainly not people on minimum wage who are spending time at Mar-a-Lago and living in Trump Towers.

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