[Peace-discuss] Rich Democrats

[David Green]

   The geographic diversity of these victories should not disguise their
   economic homogeneity. Among the nearly forty House districts where
   Democrats took control in 2018, about thirty are rated “prosperous” or
   “comfortable” by the Economic Innovation Group, a bipartisan think tank. Of
   the forty-three “distressed” districts held by Republicans, Democrats
   flipped just two (NJ-2 and NM-2).

   In other words, the midterms confirmed that the Democrats have become —
   perhaps more than ever before in their two-hundred-year history — a party
   of the prosperous. The millionaire and billionaire governors, like Phil
   Murphy in New Jersey and J.B. Pritzker in Illinois, are only the gaudiest
   new constructions on the Democratic block.

   Cast your eye across a list of the twenty richest House districts in the
   United States, measured by median income: every single one of them now has
   a Democratic representative. Of the wealthiest forty districts, thirty-five
   of them just elected a Democrat; of the wealthiest fifty, that number is
   forty-two.

   full:
   https://jacobinmag.com/2018/11/midterm-elections-reconstruction-du-bois
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