What's the matter with What's the Matter with What's the Matter with Kansas?
A big demographic argument over definitions of white working class and why they have turned Republican, or have they? I am with Ruy Teixeira here, its the education, stupid. They have turned GOP.
Among non-college-educated whites with $30,000 - $50,000 in household income, Bush beat Kerry by twenty-four points (62 percent to 38 percent); among college-educated whites at the same income level, Kerry actually managed a 49 percent to 49 percent tie. And among non-college-educated whites with $50,000 - $75,000 in household income, Bush beat Kerry by a shocking forty-one points (70 percent to 29 percent), while leading by only five points (52 percent to 47 percent) among college-educated whites at the same income level.Purely coincidentally my sister getting her online college degree coincided with her reluctant switch back to the Democrats. She still feels Democrats are too influenced by anti-religious and minority groups. She just feels the Republicans are more crooked and beholden to very big corporations and the very wealthy.
Ruy Teixeira's latest weekly package covers "values" and the favorable Democratic Party ID trend from Gallup. This also has a bearing on What's the Matter with Kansas and even the gay marriage and family values debate. Poorer communities do feel families are threatened because they actually are more unstable. The most liberal on gay rights are richer lower divorce rate states like Massachusetts.
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