2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Do you know a really rich person? [View all]Akamai
(1,779 posts)There was research about a year ago that looked at lottery winners in England, and those that won regularly became more conservative.
From: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/lottery-winners-that-take-home-more-500-likely-vote-conservative-1435430
"If a British person wins more than £500 in a lottery they are more likely to vote Conservative, according to a new a study that looked into the relationship between gambling and political attitudes.
"The research paper by academics Nattavudh Powdthavee and Andrew J. Oswald was called, Does Money Make People Right-Wing and Inegalitarian? A Longitudinal Study of Lottery Winners.
"Among those people who have had a win greater than £500 sterling (which at the time of writing is approximately $800), almost 45% of British individuals vote to the right, that is, support the Conservative party," the authors wrote.
This meant that the larger the win, the more people tilted to the right-side of the political spectrum.