Richard Florida
by Richard Florida
Mon Nov 26th 2007 at 6:13am UTC

Class and the Democratic Primaries

Chris Bowers who has emerged as one of the most interesting analysts of American electoral politics, in particular charting the reasons why Obama’s faltered – weighs in on this key issue.

While progressive creative class types skew non-Christian, skew high income, and <><>self-identified liberal, the largest connection between them will be that they have at least four-year degrees. In fact, education might be one of the largest class divides in this country, surpassing even most differences in income levels. It difficult to expect more detailed, psychographic information simply from exit polls, but determining how different classes in America are voting would not only provide more information on American elections, but on America itself.

The entire post is well worth reading

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