Democrats tend to be deadbeat dads? What?

mschuster91 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

They are probably referring to a study suggesting that Black and Hispanic families are more often suffering from non- or underpayment of child support (and from lesser amounts of support being ordered) than among White families [1]. That together with voter demographics going strongly for Democrat support among Black families [2] makes this at least a correlation supported by facts.

However, I think it is not causal because under- or nonpayment of child support is linked to financial difficulties and income disparities, which non-White people are experiencing at significantly higher rates.

[1] https://www.irp.wisc.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/CSRA-...

[2] https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/04/09/partisanship...

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tgv 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Poverty is the underlying factor.

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testfrequency 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Gestures to all the red states which on average have higher rates of crippling poverty.

You done being wrong yet?

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tgv 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Pew Research (2024) says: About six-in-ten voters with lower family incomes (58%) associate with the Democratic Party, compared with 36% who affiliate with the Republican Party.

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testfrequency 4 hours ago | parent [-]

You should check the exit polls from 2024 if you want to go back that far then.

Republicans won the vote for the under $100k bracket.

	▲	marcusverus 10 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Both can be true. Democrats tend to dominate the lowest income quintile, while Republicans tend to win the second and third quintiles. So if you're only looking at the bottom quintile, Democrats would win that cohort. If you combine the bottom three quintiles, Republicans would win it.

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actionfromafar 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

What are you making an argument for or against?

	▲	testfrequency 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It’s not threaded here but the responder made a comment about this affecting liberals more than anyone, to which I countered by saying statistically conservative states suffer more from poverty. Fully aware it’s not as a black and white as this, but on surface they are just wrong to tie a political party to poverty when it affects everyone.

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4748494949 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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