Election with the biggest polarization based on social class
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« on: December 20, 2015, 09:09:41 AM »

Which presidential election had the biggest influence of the social class on the vote?
In which presidential election the sentence "the poor voted Democratic and the rich voted Republican" described well the division of the vote?

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« Reply #1 on: January 30, 2016, 04:50:53 PM »

Maybe 1960? Upper-income areas in New England, including Massachusetts, were still heavily Republican (Wellesley voted 68-32 for Nixon over Kennedy). Or 1996? Clinton won back a lot of working class whites, esp. outside the south.
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