Is the US the only country where rich regions vote left and poor regions vote right?
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« Reply #25 on: December 13, 2020, 11:21:03 PM »

I’m not saying they are rich , but the fact is a huge portion of working class people have left those areas .

Is the link just referring to "urban centers" that are likely to be predominantly minorities? Because suburban areas are definitely not actually poorer than rural areas. Fairfax County, Virginia is not more working-class than rural Arkansas, sorry.

Also, the data I have seen, though I can't post links, shows the opposite. Rural areas have a higher poverty rate.
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« Reply #26 on: December 14, 2020, 09:18:34 AM »

1. I question Quebec being considered "progressive" at this point with CAQ and how overwhelmingly popular they are outside of Anglophone Montreal.
2. What about the recent UK election where northern England went right?
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« Reply #27 on: December 17, 2020, 04:45:44 AM »

In the US rich people are more republican than poor people.If you only factor in white people, rich white people are as republican as poor white people (it was in 2016 anyway). Middle class white people were the most republican. The key divide is education.
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« Reply #28 on: December 17, 2020, 10:00:07 PM »

In the US rich people are more republican than poor people.If you only factor in white people, rich white people are as republican as poor white people (it was in 2016 anyway). Middle class white people were the most republican. The key divide is education.
The breakdown I saw of the 2016 white vote had rich whites as the least pro-Trump (though Trump still won) and middle-income as the most with poor whites in between. However, the poorer a mostly white area is, usually, the more pro-Trump - the exceptions being some poor white urban areas and of course college towns that are technically high-poverty. I think the fact that college students are often in the lower-income bracket skews the vote of "poor whites" to the left especially since they vote at higher rates than other lower-income groups.

Still there is an obvious difference from Canada where most poor white areas vote left, including poor white urban areas like East Vancouver and poor white rural areas like most of rural Quebec and Atlantic provinces.
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