A few days late, but Legal Fiction has a good, solid post showing how class and culture and economic all interrelated to produce the 2004 election results. It's worth a read. Here's a snippet:
I think national security is, unfortunately, increasingly thought of as a cultural issue (and like the others, it has class undertones). Whether it’s because wealthier people have abandoned military service, or because of Vietnam, or because nationalism (like religion) grows weaker with higher education, I think that national security has become a subset of the culture wars in the minds of many Americans, red and blue alike.
