Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science has an interesting post up, Income, religious attendance, and voting:
Church attendance is a strong predictor of how high-income people vote, not such a good predictor for low-income voters.
Why? I think the most likely explanation is that cultural considerations become more salient as one increases up the income ladder. Check out their chart.
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That is a very interesting chart!
I suspect that it is the same for Jews and synagogue.
I think that it is the result of describing two types of religion with one word - i.e. "religion" at the low end of the income spectrum tends to mean something somewhat different from "religion" at the high end.