Income Level is Not Social Class

Statistical sleight of hand is often performed on these numbers by those with an agenda, such as the recent much-hyped Heritage Foundation study asserting that Democrats are the party of the rich because they represent the Congressional Districts with the highest income. As Julian Sanchez and others have pointed out, this is completely meaningless, merely telling us what we already know (Democrats are concentrated in the cities and the affluent coastal ... Full Story »

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by Allena Hansen - Oct. 1, 2008

A very good point made by Thomas Sowell, and one that defines the American class system. Wealth here (at least historically,) has by and large been fluid. One can come to this country wealthy and lose it all, or come here impoverished and become wealthy. Few manage to hold onto their wealth dynastically without help from a complicit government. The middle class has a way of moderating the economic dynamic in spite of the best efforts of any nascent aristocracy...all the more reason to fight to keep America a democratic republic. One senses a book deal in here somewhere.

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