Characteristics of rich people: views of U.S. Republicans and Democrats in 2012

This statistic shows the results of a 2012 survey among American Republicans and Democrats on how they characterize the rich compared to the average person. In 2012, 49 percent of the respondents who were Republican stated they consider rich people more likely than the average person to be intelligent, whereas 33 percent of the respondents who were Democrats responded that rich people were more likely than the average person to be hardworking.