{"id":197,"date":"2012-09-18T18:41:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T22:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=197"},"modified":"2012-09-18T18:41:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T22:41:00","slug":"a-third-of-americans-now-say-they-are-in-the-lower-classes-pew-social-demographic-trends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=197","title":{"rendered":"A Third of Americans Now Say They Are in the Lower Classes | Pew Social &#038; Demographic Trends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewsocialtrends.org\/2012\/09\/10\/a-third-of-americans-now-say-they-are-in-the-lower-classes\/?src=pp-footer\">A Third of Americans Now Say They Are in the Lower Classes | Pew Social &amp; Demographic Trends<\/a><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewsocialtrends.org\/2012\/09\/10\/a-third-of-americans-now-say-they-are-in-the-lower-classes\/?src=pp-footer\">According to Pew<\/a>, 1\/3 of Americans now consider themselves part of the lower class, but look at the political and ideological breakdown:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewsocialtrends.org\/files\/2012\/09\/09-10-12-Lower-Class-04.png\"> <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While the share of Republicans who place themselves in  the lower class has increased, the GOP is still underrepresented among  the lower classes relative to their numbers in the overall population.  Overall about 16% of the lower class identifies with the Republican  Party, while the GOP makes up about 22% of the population. In contrast,  the percentages of the lower class who identify as Democrats and  independents mirror their overall proportions in the country as a whole.  A third (34%) of the lower class are Democrats and 43% are  independents, while nationally a third of adults (33%) say they are  Democrats and 38% are independents.<br \/>The survey also finds that the proportion of self-described  conservatives who are in the lower class also has surged, rising from  19% in 2008 to 32% in the latest Pew Research survey. In contrast, the  proportion of moderates increased from 24% to 30%. A third of all  liberals (33%) placed themselves in the lower class, while 29% did in  2008, though this change was not statistically significant.<br \/>As a result of these shifts, roughly equal shares of conservatives  (32%), moderates (30%) and liberals (33%) say they stand on the bottom  rungs of the social ladder now<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, clearly the 47% of moochers are across the political and ideological spectrum, contrary to Mitt Romney&#8217;s suppositions (fantasies?)&nbsp; <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14983\" height=\"646\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pewsocialtrends.org\/files\/2012\/09\/09-10-12-Lower-Class-04.png\" width=\"297\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Third of Americans Now Say They Are in the Lower Classes | Pew Social &amp; Demographic Trends According to Pew, 1\/3 of Americans now consider themselves part of the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=197\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Third of Americans Now Say They Are in the Lower Classes | Pew Social &#038; Demographic Trends&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contrarian-economics","category-social-justice"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}