Working-class residents who formed its base were priced out of the city's housing market, more affluent voters moved into the city as other changes occurred.

The auto industry withered, white and affluent voters fled from the city, and the number of jobs and people both fell by about a third.

Within the county and across the state, Mr. Gore actually did best among more affluent and educated voters.

He said online voting would favor affluent white voters over poor black voters who lack computers.

Mr. Pickering appeals to relatively affluent white suburban voters.

Clinton won all age groups and income groups in Florida but split the vote with Obama among highly affluent voters making over $200,000.

It turned out that affluent suburban Republican voters - an important constituency - were as protective of nature as many liberals.

Mr. Jackson's white supporters are largely among the more liberal, more affluent and better educated voters, according to surveys of people leaving polling places.

For example, less affluent voters, those with annual income under $30,000, gave the majority of their votes to the Democrats.

Why should Republicans agree to give affluent Democratic voters a tax break?