Apparently there's been a misconception floating around about wealth and political party preference. Well, actually it's more like a bold-faced lie by many conservative commentators.
Paul Krugman has the data: rich folks vote Republican and poor folks vote Democratic. This income-related pattern has also become stronger in the past 40 years.
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"Rich folks are Republicans"
About 63% of them are (according to these data).
Similarly:
"Americans are overweight"
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/overwt.htm
It's easy to forget that 1/3 of the population in question is a sizable minority.
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