Shifts in party makeup: professionals and business owners

Politics and religion
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You know that stuff about income inequality and increasing gap between the parties?

Within each occupatoin class, we’re plotting Republican presidential vote (relative to the national mean each year); you can see some striking trends, with professionals (doctors, lawyers, teachers, etc) going to the Democrats and business owners going to the Republicans, among other patterns.

2

Is there a link to view the tables at full size that I’m missing? Those graphs are postage stamp sized.

3

Doesn’t look like it, ugh. Try saving it to the desktop and zooming or something.

4

Business owners are not synonymous with rich.

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Didn’t mean they were; “rich” now means something like over 10 million in assets. It’s hard to find owners below, say, 50k, though.