This story comes from Rep. Marcy Kaptur of Ohio via Insider. Rep. Kaptur put together a list of every congressional district in the country ranked by median income. The list is just two pages long. Districts that elected Democrats were color-coded blue. Those that elected Republicans were red. And the results were pretty obvious. Page one of the list had a lot of blue and page two had a lot more red. Here’s what it looks like from afar.
If you want to look at the details, Insider has posted a version of the chart here. Axios has taken a look an highlights one of the most obvious points about the very top of the chart.
Nine of the top 10 wealthiest congressional districts are represented by Democrats, while Republicans now represent most of the poorer half of the country, according to median income data provided by Rep. Marcy Kaptur’s (D-Ohio) office…
“Republicans were the party of the country club, and they’re increasingly the party of country,” lobbyist and political analyst Bruce Mehlman told Axios.
“We have seen an inversion of Democrat and Republican shares of the highest- and lowest-income districts — and the highest and lowest college degree-holding districts,” Cook Political Report’s Dave Wasserman told Axios.
There are definitely a lot more blue districts on that first page. Not only are Democrats 9 of the top 10, they are:
- 16 of the top 20
- 34 of the top 50
- 69 of the top 100
One thing that doesn’t get mentioned is that if you look at the very bottom of the list, say the bottom 20 districts on the list, Democrats represent 13 of them. So Dems still have a slight edge at the very bottom of the median income but not nearly as dramatic as the advantage they have at the top.
