Me either. The only bit of reasoning I can think of is that some (many?) people prefer to think of themselves as being in some way superior and therefore Republican. Because they cannot - surely not!- vote for a party that welcomes the poor, the homeless, the recently immigranted, the hard-working, hardscrabble, one-paycheck-from-the-street but determined-to-better - with the help of their society - him or herself.

"Pull yourself up by your bootstraps", you know. Never mind that you may not have boots.