@elizatech Interesting. Perhaps part of the distinction is that poorer people need more services and better public infrastructure, which are only found in the more taxed area.

The way it seems to work for everyone else is that relatively left-ish people are willing to pay taxes and support public services, infrastructure, public transportation. Relatively right-ish people want big roomy yards and don't care how many hours a day they have to sit in their cars to get there and back, and aren't willing to pay for the betterment of anything that's not their own property.

Massive overgeneralization of course, but that''s how it seems to shake out in the aggregate.