In America, poor Americans tend be snubbed as backwards and hyper religious traditionalists by both conservatives and liberals of more wealth (though this is a negative and a positive for the latter group). Vice versa, many poor Americans of all political affiliation tend to view the rich and well educated as ivory tower elites when it comes to social issues. I understand I'm generalizing, but generalizations are indeed broad. Find a way to have social conservatives be normally associated with the rich and social progressives to be associated with a poor, with a PoD later than 1900, and the same social issues of today being at the forefront (abortion, gay marriage, etc).
If I'm not clear enough, please do tell me BTW.