Big Ol' Smitty Posted March 26, 2006 Report Posted March 26, 2006 Interesting, but it should be noted that party membership shifts. Naturally, a lot of people who are better off shift to the side of Republicans, while younger people (Who aren't pulling in much money), along with people making less money. Thusly, I'd argue that that's the ways the parties have changed along with their voters base rather than someone being favored. You're misinterpreting the graph, I think. The "Democrats" line represents the trends in income growth under Democratic presidents for the various percentiles and vice versa. What the graph shows is that every income group has grown substantially under Democratic presidencies, while only the higher income groups have grown significantly under Republican presidencies (over the past 50 yrs). High income groups have done just as well under Democrats, but the lower income groups don't fare as well under Republicans.
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