“People in big cities appear to be much more pro-welfare, probably because people in those cities are more likely to live around the poor.”
“The upheaval in continental Europe over the last century has meant that there were no durable institutions which could protect property against popular demand for redistribution.”
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“Racial fragmentation in the US and the disproportionate representation of minorities among the poor has clearly played a major role in stopping rich-poor redistribution within the US, and, indeed, across the world racial cleavages seem to serve as a barrier to redistribution.”
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“Our bottom line is that Americans redistribute less than Europeans because the majority believes that redistribution favors racial minorities”
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