People in the big business hierarchies have the same education, usually the same few states of origin, and a pretty uniformly shared set of values about what work is for and how it should be done. These people tend to vote Democratic.

Small-business owners, who work in much more diverse environments, tend to vote Republican. I'm not going to speculate on why this might be so--but I suspect that it matters.

The Great Work Divide

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Reihan Salam has an interesting post on income inequality in which he notes that executives of days…