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SpankMe

(2,957 posts) Tue Apr 22, 2014, 04:29 PM Apr 2014

Country w/ highest after-tax income is no longer the US

See chart here: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/23/upshot/this-simple-table-summarizes-our-story-on-american-living-standards.html?_r=2

Notice how the trend starts when Reagan entered office!! LOL!

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Country w/ highest after-tax income is no longer the US (Original Post) SpankMe Apr 2014 OP

And the US poor will continue voting Republican. closeupready Apr 2014 #1

Interesting thought agbdf Apr 2014 #2

closeupready

(29,503 posts)

1. And the US poor will continue voting Republican.

Reply to SpankMe (Original post)

Tue Apr 22, 2014, 04:44 PM

Apr 2014

agbdf

(200 posts)

2. Interesting thought

Reply to closeupready (Reply #1)

Tue Apr 22, 2014, 05:18 PM

Apr 2014

I believe you are referring to "poor" whites. Poor non-whites vote heavily for us. Rich whites in Beverly Hills, Greenwich, CT, Silicon Valley/Bay Area, Seattle, Manhattan -NYC, and New England vote for us overwhelmingly too. Yet the poor whites in the South and Mid-West do not. These people are the ones who would benefit from our programs the most. To attracted them, we must reach out to them.

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