US House District Representation Backwards
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US House District Representation Backwards
Ronald Brownstein of The Atlantic says that Republicans now control the majority of House seats where median income is below the national median income
Democrats, who led the legislative efforts to create Social Security under Franklin D. Roosevelt and Medicare under Lyndon B. Johnson, have long thought of themselves as the party of seniors. But today, Republicans represent 141 of the 215 House districts where adults aged 65 and older exceed their 16 percent share of the national population, while Democrats hold a clear majority of seats in districts with fewer seniors than average, according to the Equity Research Institute analysis.
Republicans now also control most of the House seats in which the median income trails the national level of nearly $65,000 annually. Republicans hold 152 of the 237 seats in that category. Democrats, in turn, hold 128 of the 198 seats where the median income exceeds the national level.
Perhaps most surprisingly, Republicans hold a clear majority of the districts where the share of residents who lack health insurance exceeds the national level of 9 percent. The GOP now holds 110 of those 185 highly uninsured seats. Democrats control 138 of the 250 seats with fewer uninsured than the nation overall.
Equally revealing is to examine what share of each party’s total strength in the House these seats represent. From that angle, the parties offer almost mirror-image profiles. About two-thirds of House Republicans represent districts with more seniors than the national level, while about two-thirds of Democrats represent districts with fewer of them. Roughly two-thirds of House Republicans represent districts where the median income lags the national level, while three-fifths of Democrats hold seats where incomes surpass it. Almost exactly half of Republicans, compared with only about one-third of Democrats, represent districts with an unusually high concentration of people lacking health insurance.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2023/03/working-class-white-voters-gop-house-agenda/673500/
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Perhaps most surprisingly, Republicans hold a clear majority of the districts where the share of residents who lack health insurance exceeds the national level of 9 percent. The GOP now holds 110 of those 185 highly uninsured seats. Democrats control 138 of the 250 seats with fewer uninsured than the nation overall.
Seems like those republicans would want to make sure that their constituents have access to quality health care through health insurance instead of making sure that they're on their own when it comes to health insurance.
Seems like those republicans would want to make sure that their constituents have access to quality health care through health insurance instead of making sure that they're on their own when it comes to health insurance.
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pretty good graphic here regarding that
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DWags wrote:pretty good graphic here regarding that
That is an interesting article & graphics.
It details the split in educational levels and voting & it begs the question of older voters, growing up in a different era, being less focused on going onto college, and thus a greater number being less educated, might be part of the trends in age splits in voting.
(Though all of this split by district is distorted by gerrymandering, or even by non-gerrymandering district boundaries)
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