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Originally Posted by monir
The 47% boggles the mind even more if we take into account of the disabled veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Probably because most of those, the elderly, and some of the Southerns and rural folks believe they earned their share (probably did) and thus while they likely consider themselves poor, they don't think of themselves as part of the 47%. They think those are the bums, homeless, the immigrants (legal or not to some, but mostly the illegals), and the inner city folk. Most of the Republican poor would think the 47% are in urban areas (which usually vote Democrat), not the ones living in rural areas or the suburban areas that have taken over what use to be rural areas as the cities expand.