{"id":32200,"date":"2011-01-20T10:38:51","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T15:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=32200"},"modified":"2013-11-19T04:31:03","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T09:31:03","slug":"democrats-make-everyone-richer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/01\/20\/democrats-make-everyone-richer\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Make Everyone Richer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tipped off by Dmitriy T.M., I enjoyed a Slate\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2266174\/slideshow\/2266174\/fs\/0\/\/entry\/2266216\/\" target=\"_blank\">slideshow<\/a> depicting and contextualizing the shrinking of the middle class and the growing advantage of the very top earners in the U.S. over time. \u00a0We&#8217;ve <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/09\/07\/the-great-income-divergence\/\" target=\"_self\">highlighted this slideshow before<\/a>, but I thought this image deserved\u00a0its own post. \u00a0Drawing on data from 1948 to 2005, put together by Larry Bartels,\u00a0Slate shows that all income brackets prosper under both Democratic and Republican leadership, despite the idea that Republicans are fiscally responsible and Democrats irresponsible. \u00a0Under Democrats, however, nearly everyone is much more prosperous. \u00a0The highest income brackets are, given the margin of error, equally prosperous and all other brackets are significantly more so.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/01\/16.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32198\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/01\/16.jpg\" width=\"434\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/01\/16.jpg 543w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/01\/16-500x411.jpg 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/01\/16-110x90.jpg 110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 434px) 100vw, 434px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The figure reminds us that stereotypes about Republicans and Democrats don&#8217;t reflect reality and economic prosperity isn&#8217;t a zero sum game.<\/p>\n<p>More slides at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2266174\/slideshow\/2266174\/fs\/0\/\/entry\/2266216\/\" target=\"_blank\">Slate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tipped off by Dmitriy T.M., I enjoyed a Slate\u00a0slideshow depicting and contextualizing the shrinking of the middle class and the growing advantage of the very top earners in the U.S. over time. \u00a0We&#8217;ve highlighted this slideshow before, but I thought this image deserved\u00a0its own post. \u00a0Drawing on data from 1948 to 2005, put together by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,36,253,85],"class_list":["post-32200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-class","tag-economics","tag-history","tag-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32200"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59237,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32200\/revisions\/59237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}