Has the distinction between the two partys become social instead of ideal?

[Kamika]

Ok bear with me.

As we all know the difference between republican and the democratic partys Should be separated as

working class / poor people / certain minorities / etc etc etc for democrats

and possibly (altough i dont like putting religious in conservative

rich (well educated)/ conservative religious people /


But as i see it it is mainly

poor uneducated working class people / christians / rich for the republicans

and

Well educated / certain minorities for the democratic party.

Am i wrong here ? Does this make any sense at all?


I mean why are poor and or uneducated ppl voting for the conservatives.. am i wrong when im saying it doesnt make sense

[stopthegop]

1. may have something to do with

the tendency of many to believe those who disagree with are likely to be 'uneducated'...instead of just believing they have a different set of values or priorities.

edit: spelling

[Kamika]

4. no

I mean people who are really uneducated, stupid.. dumb.. idiots.. no clue.. those kind of ppl

For example ppl who has no clue of our foreign policy

[methinks2]

2. it's about fear

Poor people and conservatives both operate on fear.

[billbuckhead]

3. 2/3 of people with more than a college degree voted for Gore...

as did almost 1/2 of people making more than 100k per year. Those with just college degrees voted slightly more for Bush. Those making more than 50k but less than 100k voted strongly for Bush. The real dominate factor for repuKKKes are white men, fundementalist white women and Southern whites in general.

[Snow]

6. White men covers a lot of ground.....

and it sounds like very conventional wisdom to me. Who are these guys more specifically? Surely just gender and skin tone does not a * voter make (thank goodness, or I'd be <U>so</U> embarassed since I would have been forced to go out and vote repuke despite my extreme lefty orientation)

[DemocratSinceBirth]

5. For Starters

Working Class folks or those who earn $20,000 or less break heavily for the Dems.

Catholics and Main Stream Protestants break about evenly for the Dems and Reps.

Evangelicals break heavily for the Reps


Jews break heavily for the Dems

African Americans, Hispanics and Asian Americans lean Dem with African Americans leaning the furthest Dem of all

As far as the super rich I'm not but I don't think they break as heavily Rep as some might think

Dems do very well with folks who have little formal education (high school or less) and very well with folks with advanced degrees(PHD, JED , etcetera) . The only group with advanced degrees that lean heavily Rep are doctors and engineers.

[Pillowbiter]

7. Maybe you are having an epiphany

but ignorant poor people are a part of the republican system of successfully getting re-elected. They cut funding for education and make sure people don't get educated through the news media, causing more uneducated poor people. Uneducated people are more suseptible to propaganda. Propaganda is all the Republicans have going for them. Therefore they constantly get re-elected to cut funding for education.

Then throw in fear and a completely compliant press, puree, and then you have a Totalitarian frappe.

PB

[w4rma]

8. Brainwashers and Brainwashies vs. Folks who see through the brainwashing

Sort of. But this short description of the Republican Party vs. the Democratic Party does help to explain why it all divides up the way it does.

Republican Party:
Cheap Labor Conservatives who are the Extremely wealthy top 1 percenters who own the big corporations. (the Brainwashers)
Everyone else (the Brainwashies):
Small buisness owners who think Republicans help small buisnesses
Conservative Christians who have authoritarian social policy they want written as law but don't have a clue about morals in economics.
Folks who are less educated about science and arts, who might work as middle managers or secretaries.

Democratic Party:
Folks who see problems with inequality, including potential misuse of power.