"The people who are switching to UKIP are disproportionally Conservative voters, " says Professor John Curtis, of the University of Strathclyde.

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It generally found that areas nationally that were already wealthy had tended to become disproportionally wealthier, and areas that experienced high levels of relative poverty saw those levels increase.

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Now as the U.S. economy grinds slowly toward recovery in 2012, investors may turn to financial stocks that have disproportionally exposed to the U.S. environment: Those in the small cap index.

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And overall you see that the run-up at consumer debt truly was much more explained in the last few years by a fairly weak labor market, very weak job growth, especially in manufacturing, where especially African-American men are disproportionally concentrated.

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What has handicapped the middle class in the last four years is not that higher-income earners did not pay a high enough tax rate, but rather, that job losses during the crisis were disproportionally high in traditionally middle class sectors, and accompanying gains during the recovery disproportionately low.

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