Source: The Dispatch
by Kevin D Williamson
“If there is one thing everybody knows about Wall Street, it is that the boys in the pinstripe suits reliably support the Republican Party …. In reality, Wall Street has been trending Democratic for decades, for reasons that are not difficult to guess. Financial services firms tend to be concentrated in big cities and staffed by college-educated professionals — and affluent urban voters today lean Democratic, as do their nearby suburban counterparts. … As the GOP has become more southern, more evangelical, and more demonstratively boobish, people working in finance have moved into the party of Barack Obama. Considering one of the forerunners of today’s Republican populism, one Wall Street veteran told me in 2008: ‘Nobody is going to show up to parents’ day at Choate wearing a Sarah Palin T-shirt.'” (09/20/24)