The Difference Between Dems and Repubs (in Congress)
Source for data: The Center for Responsive Politics
"Democratic" industries (the blue ones) are defined as those that give more than 60 percent of their political contributions to Democrats; "Republican" industries (the red ones) as those that give more than 60 percent of their political contributions to Republicans. (The Y-axis, incidentally, is in millions of dollars and represents an average over all 2-year election cycles in the 2000s.)
Republicans are clearly the "business party." Democrats are also a "business party," but nevertheless receive the bulk of their funding from "people organizations," like unions, civil servant groups, and women's groups, and from "culture-intensive" industries, like education, publishing, and entertainment. The patterns might explain something about the policies the two parties support.
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