I keep reading about how the majority of upper-earners are Trump supporters and how the 'poor economically-anxious Trump supporter' theory is a myth.
But if you look at the CNN 2016 election polls, the number of voters earning over $250,000 per annum is split equally between Clinton and Trump supporters, and whilst the very poorest voters (i.e. those earning under $50,000 per annum) are Clinton supporters, middle-income earners (i.e. those earning between $50,000 to $200,000 per annum) tend to be Trump supports, whilst those earning between $200,000 to $250,000 per annum support Clinton.
What I extrapolate from these stats is that the poor and working-class still tend on balance to support the Democratic Party by a large margin. However, if you were to exclude POC and welfare recipients from these stats, my hunch is that white working-class voters in work tended to back Trump (hence the GOP's success in winning the rustbelt states in 2016 from the Democratic Party). There's no doubting that Trump's racial rhetoric disgusts black and Latinx voters, as one would expect, and that the GOP's reduction of the state will understandably turn-off most welfare recipients, of any colour.
But the stats seem to indicate that middle to upper-middle class earners supported Trump, on balance, whereas those at the particularly high end of the upper-middle class earners tended to back Hillary.
And as you suggest Bubbathegut, the mega-rich, the one-percenters/billionaires, including the likes of Bezos, Cuban, Gates and Buffett, tend to be Democrats, or, at the very least, no fans of Trump (if their various anti-Trump pronouncements are anything to go by). Of course, when you're that rich and comfortable with your own capacity, ability and flexibility in terms of making money, you have nothing whatsoever to lose from a Democratic government imposing (slightly) higher taxes than the GOP.
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