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You made me go look it up (LOL!). I was going from memory, and the $35,000 number stuck in my mind because it seemed low to me. The only place I could find numbers at this late date is the 2004 election roundup on cnn.com. They say the line is somewhere between $30,000 and $50,000 where people decisively turn from D to R. They don’t have it broken down by race or ethnicity, though.

I was told the same thing about the “the black vote” in school, too. Maybe it used to be true. But, anecdotally, I live in an upper middle class neighborhood with all races. The one thing we all have in common is we have worked like dogs to get here. Based on comments and bumper stickers, my black neighbors and my Hispanic neighbors were, without exception, supporting the Republicans in 2004.

I think if you’re smart enough and ambitious enough to earn a high income, you’ve learned how to think outside the box. Which is why the Dems are so desperate to import a new underclass and legalize them so they eventually gain voting rights. They need a new influx of poor, easily-manipulated voters.