{"id":818,"date":"2008-09-09T21:56:56","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T20:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=818"},"modified":"2008-09-09T21:56:56","modified_gmt":"2008-09-09T20:56:56","slug":"does-equality-breed-conservatism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/does-equality-breed-conservatism\/","title":{"rendered":"Does equality breed conservatism?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/09\/07\/magazine\/07Inequality-t.html?em\">article in the New York Times<\/a> today.  Most of it is to US-centric to be of great relevance here, but this paragraph made me think:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Measured by money income, Washington qualifies as one the most unequal cities in the United States. Yet these two very different halves of a single city do share at least one thing. They vote the same way: Democratic. And in this, we are not alone. As a general rule, the more unequal a place is, the more Democratic; the more equal, the more Republican. The gap between rich and poor in Washington is nearly twice as great as in strongly Republican Charlotte, N.C.; and more than twice as great as in Republican-leaning Phoenix, Fort Worth, Indianapolis and Anaheim.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If this is true, is this because people in equal places want to become unequal, and vice versa?<\/p>\n<p>I do wonder whether it&#8217;s universally applicable, though.  Scandinavians don&#8217;t seem to be going for conservative parties in droves, for instance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an article in the New York Times today. Most of it is to US-centric to be of great relevance here, but this paragraph made me think: Measured by money income, Washington qualifies as one the most unequal cities in the United States. Yet these two very different halves of a single city do share at least one thing. They vote the same way: Democratic. And in this, we are not alone. As a general rule, the more unequal a place is, the more Democratic; the more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}