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For decades, the Democrats have been viewed as the party of the poor, with the Republicans representing the rich. Recent presidential elections, however, have shown a reverse pattern, with Democrats performing well in the richer blue states in the northeast and coasts, and Republicans dominating in the red states in the middle of the country and the south. Through multilevel modeling of individual level survey data and county- and state-level demographic and electoral data, we reconcile these patterns. Furthermore, we find that income matters more in red America than in blue America. In poor states, rich people are much more likely than poor people to vote for the Republican presidential candidate, but in rich states (such as Connecticut), income has a very low correlation with vote preference. Adapted from the source document.

Examines research on, and importance of, state courts, including dissimilitude of US state high courts; focuses on the case of abortion and judicial review of restrictive abortion legislation. Assesses factors associated with the duration of time between legislative enactment of a restrictive statute and the court docketing a case in which a constitutional challenge is made, and the forces affecting the individual justices' votes to invalidate or uphold that legislation.