Rich Voter, Poor Voter, Red Voter, Blue Voter

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'Excellent! An over-time analysis of the factors that impact elections from one of the few people able to do it. From class and culture to white identity, it is all there. Special attention is paid to the vote in 2012 and 2016. An original and creative contribution to our understanding of the dynamics of elections. Mandatory reading!'

William Crotty, Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr. Chair in Public Life and Emeritus Professor of Political Science, Northeastern University

'This book offers a much-needed update on social class and voting behavior in presidential elections. Prysby gives careful thought on how to measure social class, and conducts a systematic analysis that is both well executed and convincing. This work makes a major contribution to the academic literature. Highly recommended to anyone who wants to understand how the relationship has changed between social class and voting behavior during the first two decades of this century.'

Peter L. Francia, East Carolina University

'Media pundits seized on the power of Trump's populist appeal, while sociologists and political scientists focused their attention on surveys of economic anxieties and attitudes toward race and immigration, attempting to adjudicate between the relative importance of each. In Rich Voter, Poor Voter, Red Voter, Blue Voter, Charles Prysby takes us beyond these fairly narrow attempts to explain Trump's victory, instead situating the rather remarkable events of 2016 in a much broader pattern of class-based voting by whites in America, a trend that has been growing stronger in recent years. Prysby's book should be required reading for those looking for an introduction to class and political behavior among whites, because it clearly and methodically reviews its history, its relationship to other important cleavages in voting behavior, and its implications for future political alignments.'

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