No More Faraway Friends? Divergence of Local Living Cost and Labor Market and the Geographic Discrepancy in Political Preferences among the Lower-Middle Class in the UK and the USA.

• In Event: Voting and geography

Brief Overview

Diverging trends in the local labor market and the cost of living leave lower-middle-class voters in different areas to have contrasting policy preferences. I use matching on ANES/BES data to see the effect of the local market on comparable people.

Author

• Makoto Fukumoto, University of California-Berkeley