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Dec. 8, 2014
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The Democratic Party is not losing working class whites because of Obama, we are the ones who voted for him, twice.
After the 2012 election Romney's advisors tried to say that at least they won the middle class. Middle and working class doesn't mean what it used to in America. About half the country makes less than $50K, and a heck of a lot of us make less than $30K, Obama voters. Romney won the over $50K crowd, but not the under $50K bunch, and that included a heck of a lot of white people, more white people than the over $50K bunch did. http://www.slate.com/...
Look at that trend line it doesn't start trending up again until over sixty (or eightieth percentile of family income for the south), and that's family income, not individuals. The line barely makes it past the 50% mark for whites at just over the 95th percentile, those are some really rich white people. It's true the Democratic Party is losing an ever growing percentage of white working class votes, but don't blame that on Obama, or racism, blame it on policies that hurt working Americans. Worry more that without Obama on the ticket an ever larger sector of the working class of all ethnicities might desert the Democratic party.
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