If You're Well Off, You'll Vote For Obama. Less So, McCain.

Noted by Jay Nordlinger:

I’ve just come back from a weekend in Vermont — and here’s how I understand it: Modestly off people — “real Vermonters,” as some people say — are voting for McCain and Palin. Comfortably off people, such as those who own ski chalets, are voting for Obama and Biden. And the following has been frequently noted about the city of my residence, New York: The rich are voting Democratic. And those who work for them — driving cars, cleaning rooms, and so on — are voting Republican.

Yet, when I was growing up, the Republican party was always called the party of the rich, and it still suffers from that label. Over and over, that which I was taught is contradicted by the evidence of my lived experience.

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[Noumenon]

My lived experience working at a plastics factory is that everyone seems like "real American" types who you'd think vote Republican, but when you talk to them they're just as likely to be Democratic. The cynicism level is a lot higher, though, so nonvoting is the main way.

Matthew Yglesias has a counterpoint to this post here.