Blonde Sagacity writes: "So it would seem that the DNC is the party of the rich and Conservatives are the hard working middle class..."

Indeed they are--that's a topic I covered in depth over three years ago. Thomas Sowell's essay on the same topic, "The Oldest Fraud", written immediately after the election of 2004 is also well worth a reread. And David Brooks also did a great job of exploring the ramifications of this trend in the seminal Bobos In Paradise from early 2001.