Re: Nick Cohen on Thomas Frank

[Michael Hoover <HooverM@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>>> furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx 9/14/2004 12:32:32 PM >>>
The question I have is whether Franks offers detailed statistics
about support for the Republicans among Kansan workers in general and
unionized Kansan workers in particular.
Even in generally conservative Kansas, workers making less than $15,000
went 77% for Gore and only 23% for Bush, and support for Bush was the
highest (83%) among those making over $100,000.
Yoshie
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re. above, i've posted to this list in the past about jeffrey
stonecash's book _class and party in american politics_ (2000)

stonecash (no marxist or leftist is he) challenges conventional wisdom
that dem party support for civil rights and civil pushed white [male]
working class away...

general assumption has been that race drove wedge between white and
non-white working class with resulting weakened class voting...

stonecash points out that data on class voting generally utilizes
notion of self- identified class, he asserts that such measure does not
capture economic situation of respondents...

his analysis is based on relative income situation of voters, this
reflects relative level of resources people have to live their lives...

his results indicate steady increase in support dems among less
affluent since the 1950s (study ends with 1996), differences in voting
by income position [class] have been increased rather than declined
during year he studied...

moreover, stonecash's data shows that white workers in south are more
likely to vote dem than are more affluent southerners, big factor,
however, is that their turnout is much lower than middle/upper middle
whites...

of course, dems haven't offered any working people much in decades...
michael hoover

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