[lbo-talk] Americans' class self-ID

[brad bauerly]

Doesn't this poll counter what many here have tried to say about the
teaparty poll results: namely that those that self represented as teaparty
activists were upper-middle class or part of the bourgeoisie (majority
making less than $75,000)?  It would appear that most of the respondents to
the teaparty poll would be categorized as middle class by this.  As members
of the middle class they would be part of this finding- "In ABC News and ABC
News/Washington Post polls conducted in recent months, a majority in this
middle income range, 58 percent, are
worried about their family's financial situation, and about as many, 56
percent, report personal stress as a result of the current economy...."
there is more too.

Brad

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Chris Maisano wrote:
>Is it just me, or is the poll's definition of middle class as houshold
income ranging from $35,000 - >$100,000 absurdly broad? Isn't median US
household income something like $52,000 per year? >$35,000 as the starting
point of the lower middle class seems about right, but household making >$70
or $75,000 per year and up would seem to be solidly in the upper reaches of
the income >distribution, no?