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My friend Cheryl suggests a non ev-psych response. Each of us is, in many senses, an underdog. We are out of the ancestral environment, and are part of societies that are too darn large. We feel like underdogs, and so when we see another, we perceive a similarity of circumstance which enhances our feelings of sympathy.
I like this idea too. One prediction from it seems to be that those who feel less like underdogs (such as a Saudi Prince) will support underdogs less. One might find those who feel less like underdogs viageneral socieconomic status too, but since we have a fairly egalitarian society high income people might actually be more likely to have considered themselves an underdog during their formative years.