8.3.6: Politics
As I have stressed throughout this text, people perceive events from their own corner in life.
Political views are no exception to this symbolic interactionist principle, and the rich and the poor walk different political paths.
The higher that people are on the social class ladder, the more likely they are to vote for Republicans (Gelman 2014).
In contrast, most members of the working class believe that the government should intervene in the economy to provide jobs and to make citizens financially secure.
They are more likely to vote for Democrats.
Although the working class is more liberal on economic issues (policies that increase government spending), it is more conservative on social issues, such as opposing abortion (Houtman 1995; Seib and O’Connor 2016).
People toward the bottom of the class structure are also less likely to be politically active—to campaign for candidates or even to vote (Gilbert 2014; Statistical Abstract 2019:Table 438).
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