Wealth In America

The topic I am discussing is wealth in America and how it relates to how students identify politically. The concepts I am looking is generally political wealth in America and how people of different economic brackets favor one political ideology over the other. I want to discover the multitude of factors that make people who have money, more conservative than those who do not. I want to look at why liberals who have money and don’t identify as conservative but as liberal instead. Since we are looking at the campus I wanted to see how this effected our campus. in this research paper is does a student at High Point Universities economic status effects how conservative they are or are not. Since the time I been interested in Politics …show more content…
This an important question to ask because each region of the United States has a differing ideas about what makes someone conservative or liberal. As I mentioned earlier that a southern may be conservative for social politics instead of a economic because they may value their social views more. This is important to look at to see how people identify that way. I also ask how their parents identify politically because that is one of the main factors for how their kid/High Point student will identify According to Gallup “(77% of future Republicans say their views are similar to their parents). But 25% of future Democrats and 28% of future independents tell Gallup they are more liberal than their parents.” (Gallup, 2017) . I also ask how the student identifies to see if they are different than their parents. Of course of one the most important questions is how much do their parents make. This is important to see if there is a direct relationship of how wealthy your parents are to how conservative the student …show more content…
I tried my best to give the survey to people that we’re alone and couldn’t be influenced by other people they were sitting with. I also had a friend pick out people that I would interview so I wouldn’t have a bias I didn’t even know about when handing the survey out. For my questions I had people circle the numbers next to the answers they chose. This made it easier for me to enter my variables in excel. For my questions about conservatism for example, the higher the number the more conservative you are, six is the most conservative. On the other hand questions like what region of the United States do you come from I had to do it differently in excel. In Excel I had to add extra more add more columns and show give each region a one underneath the column if the participate is from that region. I’m having a hard time explaining how it works in excel, but I understand