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Sample: 5,109 Harris Trump
Under $30,000 (12.0%) 50.0% 46.0%
$30,000-$49,999 (16.0%) 45.0% 53.0%
$50,000-$99,999 (32.0%) 46.0% 51.0%
$100,000-$199,999 (28.0%) 51.0% 47.0%
$200,000 or more (13.0%) 51.0% 45.0%

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/exit-polls-2024-presidential-election/

While the democratic party definitely embodies liberal elitism in some ways, this shows that the commonly claimed “poor people vote Trump” really isn’t true.

Rich and Poor people seem to prefer Harris by a small margin, while middle class seems to support Trump.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Petite Bourgeoisie begin to side against the working class when they are being proletarianized. They have been hit hard by increasing monopolization and large businesses that can outcompete and raise the barrier to entry, and are attempting to turn the clock back. Marx's analysis of class dynamics is extremely useful for understanding the modern world. Speaking of, I can link an intro guide to theory if anyone wants one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

While at it check out the housing question...

Be prepared to be hurt and note the date of the text lol

A little hook:

The period in which an old civilized country makes such a transition from manufacture and small-scale production to large-scale industry, a transition which is, moreover, accelerated by such favorable circumstance, is also predominantly the period of “housing shortage.” On the one hand, masses of rural workers are suddenly drawn into the big towns, which develop into industrial centres; on the other hand, the building plan of these old towns does not any longer conform with the conditions of the new large-scale industry and the corresponding traffic; streets are widened and new ones cut through, and railways run through the centre of the town. At the very time when masses of workers are streaming into the towns, workers’ dwellings are pulled down on a large scale. Hence the sudden housing shortage for the workers and for the small traders and small businesses which depend for their custom on the workers. In the towns which grew up from the very beginning as industrial centres, this housing shortage is as good as unknown – for instance, Manchester, Leeds, Bradford, Barmen-Elberfeld. On the other hand, in London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, the shortage took on acute forms at the time, for the most part, continued to exist in a chronic form