What a lie. Herbert hoover was not wealthy. He was a middle class Iowa man who was an engineer by trade. Wendle Wilkee was not wealthy. And Tom Dewey was a prosecutor with no wealth. Ike was a farm boy. He spend his adult life living on an army salary. Nixon was the son of a lower middle class Quaker family. Jerry Ford was a very middle class man. Reagan was the son of an alcoholic store clerk. The Bush's are a mildly wealthy family but the Cheney family is not.
On the Democratic side FDR was from a rich and powerful New York Family that had been rich since New York was New Amsterdamm. Harry Truman was not rich, but Adlai Stevenson was. Kennedy was rich and Jimmy Carter was not. Clinton was not rich. But no Republican is as rich as Ross Perot. And almost all the super rich are Democrats. Buffet, Gates, Ford, Vanderbuilt, and Rockefeller are all Democrats. The Presidents of GE, Merril Lynch, Disney, Viacom, Time Warner,and Boeing are all Democrats. The presidents of the New York times, Washington Post, LA times and CNN are all Democrats.
Because the DemoRATS, just like the Communists, are an unbeatable alliance of the guilt ridden rich and the lumps plus an odd assortment of envy consumed low class working stiffs and middle class working stiffs who think themselves poorer than they are.
I am tired of this malarkey, and we need to point out the truth.
Not to disagree with the main premise of your post but this part is incorrect. Herbert Hoover most certainly was wealthy. He was born to a poor to lower-middle class family in Iowa and orphaned at age nine, but through his own industriousness (common Quaker trait) he became a millionaire several times over before he became president (and one quite often unfairly maligned).