According to a political article published by the New York Times, unemployed citizens are twice as likely to want to vote for candidates who support unemployment benefits. Wealthy caucasian men are more likely to oppose income redistribution because that would mean taking money from them making them less rich which they do not want to be. The idea is that Democrats and Republicans are very different. As stated before, many favor policies that protect minorities and liberal ideals. Republicans lean towards the opposite. This leads to the question of why do working class whites vote Republican? Since they do not earn as much money they would vote Democrat because of their economic interest. However this is not true because in research done by
