We usually go with self-interest. Yet there seems to be a dichotomy in politics. Republicans usually are business-oriented and wealthy..why would working people who are not wealthy be affiliated with that party? Religion? Something else?

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• Enigmatic answer, weatherman. Thanks, though! :)

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  by RosieGHM Jetpacker on January 18th, 2008

• I shall attempt to explain. The working class aspires to have the "good life". Most Republicans who have money, have earned it themselves. The rich Democrats usually inherited the money, so it doesn't quite mean the same to them.
  
  If you, as an "ordinary American" want money, and if you're not likely to inherit money, then your role models include people who have achieved monetary success through their own efforts.
  
  I know I am making some generalizations here. So it is with live, too.

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  by weatherman taking week or so off on January 21st, 2008

• Got it. Thanks! :)

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  by RosieGHM Jetpacker on January 21st, 2008

• wow ... and one of the "planks" of Communism is to abolish inheritance ... which would hurt rich Democrats more than rich Republicans?

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  by purplecows on December 16th, 2011

• This question is almost 4 years old pc. Are you the one who dredged it up from the archives? If so, why? Happy Friday.

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  by RosieGHM Jetpacker on December 16th, 2011

• because it got in my face somehow, probably from "RELATED QUESTIONS"

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  by purplecows on December 16th, 2011