![Income and Class still play a major role in US voter demographics.](https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/us-voter-demographics-united-states-elections-income-class-03142023-1-1.jpg?w=519&h=259&crop=1)
According to some pundits, class identity in the United States matters only insofar as it is a proxy for anti-immigrant attitudes and resentment toward racial minorities. But we shouldn’t be so quick to accept the idea that class identification is unimportant to Americans and therefore politically irrelevant.