" If basic economic issues are removed from the table, Gietzen has written, only the social issues remain to distinguish the parties. And in such a climate, Democratic appeals to people of ordinary means can be easily neutralized. “Years ago, it was assumed that the Republican Party was ’the party of the rich,’ and that the Democrats stood for working people,” Gietzen writes. Not anymore! "

― Thomas Frank , What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America