We study an election between a Left versus a Right party. The parties compete both on taxes and on cultural policies. Voters cast ballots and donate money to their preferred party. When the parties polarize exclusively on taxes, Left wins votes from the poor majority while Right secures campaign contributions from the rich minority. Divergence on cultural issues helps Left to attract campaign contributions from the wealthy minority, and helps Right to win votes from the poor majority. Cultural divergence benefits a party even when most voters dislike its cultural stance. Right benefits most from provoking culture wars on issues that many voters care about, but on which they are not too polarized. In contrast, Left favors culture wars on niche issues on which a relatively small group of voters are very polarized.