Lower Class Americans

Political culture, by many definitions, is not a commonality. Many studies suggest that not all Americans thin alike; that conservatives tend to incline to Republican, while liberals tend to vote Democratic. Yet other Americans across the board think more negatively about government officials than others do, while yet others define their political inclinations based on class. Many factors thus determine political attitudes. The wealth variable, while remaining subtle, has a huge influence on class formation, and political choices and especially on voting, and association to a political party.

While voting remains the epitome of political participation in America, it is unlikely to be spontaneous. The patterns are largely determined by wealth variables that offer important cues that split voters based on political preferences and determine their party choices. The wealth variable, also referred to as the economic cleavage traditionally separates voters into economic classes. The lower class Americans, defined by lower-incomes, are more

Family, friends, the environment in which people live and the organizations within where they interact with others all shape people’s attitudes about political ideologies, and by extension, how they participate in political activities, the persons they vote for, and what political parties and ideologies they are likely to incline to. According to Wolfinger and Raymond (1514), political opinion formation is affected by the larger contexts in which people live, and this context is most influenced by immediate families. Family influences on politics is largely through spousal urgings. Nonetheless, children also tend to ingrain the political inclinations of their parents. Whereas other influences are likelier to cross the family as people grow older, a family with stronger political activism will logically impart its ideologies to the