Party of the Working Man Huh… Tell Us Another Fable Dems
Growing up I always heard that Republicans were the party of the rich and Democrats the party of the poor and working classes. What a load of BULL!
Donald Lambro of Townhall.com has an article posted today debunking that myth.
In a little-noticed, district-by-district study of incomes, based on Internal Revenue Service and U.S. Census Bureau data, the Heritage Foundation not only found a majority of the nation’s richest districts were represented by Democrats but more than half of the wealthiest households were concentrated in the 18 states where Democrats hold both Senate seats.
“If you take the wealthiest one-third of the 435 congressional districts, we found that Democrats represent about 58 percent of those jurisdictions,” said Heritage vice president Michael Franc, who directed the study.
Franc’s study also found that “the vast majority of unabashed conservative House members hail from profoundly middle-income districts.” And that makes sense to me in spite of a lifetime of rhetoric to the contrary as-well-as the propensity of organized labor to brainwash their membership into backing Democrats over Republicans based on that rhetoric. MORE
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Posted by Gribbit on November 29, 2007 6:32 pm
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