Interesting piece linked below from Thomas Edsell at NYT. Among the findings:
"Perhaps most significant, Kitschelt and Rehm found that the common assumption that the contemporary Republican Party has become crucially dependent on the white working class defined as whites without college degrees is overly simplistic.
Instead, Kitschelt and Rehm find that the surge of whites into the Republican Party has been led by whites with relatively high incomes in the top two quintiles of the income distribution but without college degrees, a constituency that is now decisively committed to the Republican Party.
Kitschelt and Rehm write:
Individuals in the low-education/high-income group tend to endorse authoritarian noneconomic policies and tend to oppose progressive economic policies. Small business owners and shopkeepers particularly in construction, crafts, retail, and personal services as well as some of their salaried associates populate this group.
Low-income whites without college degrees have moved to the Republican Party, but because they frequently hold liberal economic views that is, they support redistributionist measures from which they benefit they are conflicted in their partisan allegiance.
The authors point out that members of this group
tend to support progressive economic policies and tend to endorse authoritarian policies on the noneconomic dimension. In occupational terms, this group consists primarily of low-skill and intermediate routine blue-collar manufacturing or clerical-administrative jobs (the 'working class').
We Aren't Seeing White Support for Trump for What It Is
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/28/opinion/trump-white-voters.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
"Perhaps most significant, Kitschelt and Rehm found that the common assumption that the contemporary Republican Party has become crucially dependent on the white working class defined as whites without college degrees is overly simplistic.
Instead, Kitschelt and Rehm find that the surge of whites into the Republican Party has been led by whites with relatively high incomes in the top two quintiles of the income distribution but without college degrees, a constituency that is now decisively committed to the Republican Party.
Kitschelt and Rehm write:
Individuals in the low-education/high-income group tend to endorse authoritarian noneconomic policies and tend to oppose progressive economic policies. Small business owners and shopkeepers particularly in construction, crafts, retail, and personal services as well as some of their salaried associates populate this group.
Low-income whites without college degrees have moved to the Republican Party, but because they frequently hold liberal economic views that is, they support redistributionist measures from which they benefit they are conflicted in their partisan allegiance.
The authors point out that members of this group
tend to support progressive economic policies and tend to endorse authoritarian policies on the noneconomic dimension. In occupational terms, this group consists primarily of low-skill and intermediate routine blue-collar manufacturing or clerical-administrative jobs (the 'working class').
We Aren't Seeing White Support for Trump for What It Is
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/28/opinion/trump-white-voters.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share