At the UK General Election of 1964, a 2% of voters with no ‘working class characteristics’ voted Labour.
People’s socio-economic characteristics are now much less significant than they used to be as indicators of how they are likely to vote, for not only do many working class people vote for parties of the right, but large swathes of the middle class now vote Labour.
Support for Labor among manual working class voters as a whole was no higher than support for the right-wing parties in the 2004 Australian election.
If lower grade white collar occupations are included as working class, the right-wing parties in Australia actually achieved a small lead over the Australian Labor Party among working class voters.
POSSUM COMITATUS asks why are the Greens strongest in the inner cities? What is the cause of Greens voters living in the inner cities?
He found that people working in the arts, education, media and technology industries are more likely to vote Green, and as a result of the distribution of workplaces for these industries having a higher density in the inner suburbs, the people living within close proximity to their workplaces naturally leads to the inner cities having higher levels of Greens voters. He concludes:
it’s just a modern evolution of class based electoral analysis – whereas the Labor vote used to correlate strongly with manufacturing and low skill, labour intensive industries – today, the Green vote correlates with new skilled services industries like arts, education, media and technology.
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