: Poor Republican

ディヴィッド・ブルークスは、同じ貧困層に属する場合ではあっても、共和党・民主党支持層のあいだには「楽観」の格差があると指摘している。

Last week the Pew Research Center came out with a study of the American electorate that crystallized something I've been sensing for a long time: rich people are boring, but poor people are interesting. [...]

According to the Pew study, 76 percent of poor Republicans believe most people can get ahead with hard work. Only 14 percent of poor Democrats believe that. Poor Republicans haven't made it yet, but they embrace what they take to be the Republican economic vision - that it is in their power to do so. Poor Democrats are more likely to believe they are in the grip of forces beyond their control.

The G.O.P. succeeds because it is seen as the party of optimistic individualism.
(May 15, 2005 Meet the Poor Republicans By DAVID BROOKS)