2018 Mid-Term Results: Republicans the Party of Middle Class – Democrats the Party of Uber-Rich and US Ghettos

2018 Mid-Term Results: Republicans the Party of Middle Class – Democrats the Party of Uber-Rich and US Ghettos

by Jim Hoft November 17, 2018 99 Comments

In 2014, we reported that contrary to what the media was reporting at the time, the Democrat Party and not the Republican Party was the party of the rich. We also found that Democrats were the party of the poorest inner city districts in the US.

This year’s mid-term results show that the Democrats have increased their hold with the uber-rich in America and their hold over the super poor as well.

We performed a study in 2014 of the makeup of the House of Representatives collecting the 2012 US census data housed at the government census site. We also obtained a list of Congressional Representatives and their party affiliation from the US Congressional website for the 113[SUP]th[/SUP] Congress voted into office starting in 2012 and combined these files into one massive spreadsheet to obtain relationships. What we found then was truly shocking.

First of all, it is clear from the US Census data that Democrats were the party of rich. 14 of the top 20 richest districts in America were Democratic districts.



In addition to this, our work showed that 36 of the 39 poorest districts in America were Democratic districts.


The data from 2012 showed that the working class districts were represented by Republicans by almost a two-to-one ratio. If you excluded the 20 richest districts and the bottom 39 poorest districts there were 225 Republican working class districts and only 152 Democrat working class districts.

The 2018 Mid-terms show Democrats have an even stronger hold over the super rich and the super poor!

According to Firstthings.com Democrats now have an even stronger hold on the rich in America after the mid-term elections of 2018 [emphasis added] –

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Imagine all 435 House districts lined up from richest to poorest according to their 2017 median household income (the latest available data from the Census Bureau), Silicon Valley (CA-18) at one end and South Bronx (NY-15) at the other. Before the 2018 midterms, the richest 15 percent of districts was fairly evenly split between Democrats (38) and Republicans (28), but no more. Sixteen of the thirty-seven seats (so far) flipped by the Democrats are in this strata. In the new 116th Congress, these wealthiest sixty-six districts will be represented by fifty-four Democrats and just ten Republicans (with two races yet to be decided). Starting January 3, 2019, twenty (twenty-one if Katie Porter’s lead in CA-45 holds) of the twenty-two richest districts will be represented by Democrats. This year the richest House districts in eleven (and possibly twelve) different states flipped from Republican to Democrat (CO-6, GA-6, IL-6, IA-3, KS-3, MI-11, MN-3, NJ-7, PA-5, SC-1, VA-10; UT-4 is still not called). Going further, in five states (six if Carolyn Bourdeaux wins GA-7) the top two richest districts flipped. These sixteen districts plus five others from the wealthiest 15 percent that weren’t tops in their states contributed well over half the Democrats’ new seats. Without them the House would never have turned blue.

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The Democrats however, are also the party of the super poor with their black caucus members representing some of the poorest districts in the country –

The upshot of the 2018 midterms is that the Democratic Party now overwhelmingly represents America’s rich. At the same time, Democrats continue to represent the poorest Americans, at least those who are not white. Managing this contradiction is ever more the [Democrat] party’s great challenge.
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As the Democrat Party goes further and further left, it becomes less the party of working Americans and more the party of the super rich and the US ghettos.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/11/2018-mid-term-results-republicans-the-party-of-middle-class-democrats-the-party-of-uber-rich-and-us-ghettos/

I would say that’s partially true, but Democrats also did pretty well in the suburbs.

That result overall isn’t shocking though. The Republicans didn’t lose some astronomical seats. Very common for the party of the president to lose quite a bit of seats

The people tend to hate whatever party controls Congress—which in itself is a problem

Stop posting fake news!

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Stop posting fake news!

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Well.... if its fake, can you prove it by answering these 2 questions?

1. Of the 10 poorest cities in America, which party holds control in that city?
2. Of the highest donors in the past election cycles, which party got the most donations from the super rich?

NFLTrends said:

Well.... if its fake, can you prove it by answering these 2 questions?

1. Of the 10 poorest cities in America, which party holds control in that city?
2. Of the highest donors in the past election cycles, which party got the most donations from the super rich?

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"fake news"

Good grief.

Joe, even the analysis you cited can be misleading. Congressional districts are often times a hodgepodge of towns to make sure some city carried the district for them. It's exactly what the democrats do it Connecticut, seemingly changing the makeup of districts to ascertain they give themselves the best chance to win them all. I know Republicans do this too in states they control, but different. The dems want their cities to carry the day, the GOP wants the cities to be isolated and their influence contained. Think of it as a microcosm of the electoral college. Democrats want their 90% + concentrated voting block to carry the entire country, but luckily for us the founding fathers were brilliant.

I concede that Silicon Valley, the media, Hollywood and all the people that have "exposure" and / or the ability to control the narrative are democratic. Their spin is democratic, 100% of the time. Even their analysis of exit polling data is spin, and how accurate has exit polling really been when it matters? NOT in Florida in 2018, NOT in 2016, NOT in the Briexit, NOT in 2004 and NOT in 2000. Essentially, exit polling as been inaccurate seemingly whenever conservatives win a significant election, NEVER the other way around, NEVER. And since we know exit polling has been inaccurate, how does the media use those numbers to arrive at perfect results applying simple math to a ton of variables? They blend, they fudge, they have to inject their own assumptions to scale down democratic numbers so that the end result appears to make sense.

A few things have been consistent with exit polling data throughout their history.

1) The democrats dominate the impoverished vote, and these numbers are verified by looking at actual results, they control the poorer suburbs.

2) The more you make, the more Republican you are. These numbers are supported by looking at who controls the wealthier suburbs. There is one mitigating trend here, the suburbs are much more conservative locally than they are in national elections.

3) The older you are, the more conservative you are. That's time doing it's thing. As you accumulate wisdom and experience, you move to the right. There comes a point in time when people begin to realize who the bullshitters really are, and government is NOT the solution.

4) The democratic party is a coalition of special interests, a/k/a the people who vote for a living. From people wanting more social assistance, to unions wanting a bigger slice of the pie and government protection, to teacher's unions wanting to prevent school choice and protecting their jobs, to environmentalists wanting government grants, and everybody else wanting some special government program or regulation or law to advance themselves.

The last one is why they're so angry and violent. they NEED GOVERNMENT to survive, they NEED GOVERNMENT to provide for them in some manner, they NEED OTHER PEOPLES' money for something. Some NEED GOVERNMENT for everything.

Now there are exceptions to everything in life, even the affluent burbs might be divided like 55 / 45, hell the Republicans even get 1% of the single black mom vote, so there are exceptions, but the neighborhoods don't lie.