andie wrote:

"A very substantial number of wage earning workers with
no investment income are conservative. Union
households are different but there the key variable is
obviously union membership."

If one accepts Engels' labor aritstocracy thesis, then wouldn't one
expect to see a considerable of working class conservatism in the
advanced capitalist countries? Engels, himself, after all had been
struck by the degree of conservatism that he had observed among the
British workers of his day.

Jim F.