[discuss-dan] Who votes in America and who doesn't?

[Doc Rosen <drdrdoc@dr.com>]

Who votes in America  and who doesn't?

Excerpted from Monthly Review Magazine:


Consider the class dimensions of

voting in the United States, based on exit

polls following the November 2000

election. Those Americans making less

than fifty thousand dollars per

year, nearly 80 percent of the adult

population, accounted for only 47

percent of the voters. Or, to put it

another way, the top fifth or, to be

generous, the top quarter of highest

income Americans accounted for more

than half the votes cast. Moreover,

the class bias has become more

pronounced in the past twenty-five years,

as an inordinate number of

working-class and middle-class Americans have

stopped voting, or have never begun to vote.

Somos la misma familia,
Doc
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