What I learned today
Monday, September 8th, 2008 by AriI found this very interesting and had never seen it before:
As a general rule, the more unequal a place is, the more Democratic; the more equal, the more Republican. The gap between rich and poor in Washington is nearly twice as great as in strongly Republican Charlotte, N.C.; and more than twice as great as in Republican-leaning Phoenix, Fort Worth, Indianapolis and Anaheim.
I of course knew that generally places which are less well off are democratic whereas prosperity seems to breed conservatism, but I hadn’t heard the part about equality. It does help to explain why I see so many Obama stickers in the extremely expensive part of Washington DC that Frum writes about.
