White working and middle-class voters accept conservative arguments that big government has contributed to declining social mobility; many upper-middle-class voters support Democrats because they think more government intervention will counter the trend of decreasing social mobility (123).
Social Class and Voting – Roskin
Social Class and Voting – Roskin
In the 1970’s, differences in levels of education began to correspond with greater income inequality; as jobs for people with low levels of education became less prevalent, social mobility for Americans decreased, in comparison to that same measure–the ability of a citizen to move to another social class–in other Western countries.