Posted on 10/18/2018 4:55:21 AM PDT by Magnatron
Over the past 18 years, the Democratic electorate has moved steadily to the left, as liberals have displaced moderates. Self-identified liberals of all races and ethnicities now command a majority in the party, raising the possibility that views once confined mainly to the party elite have spread into the rank and file.
From 2001 to 2018, the share of Democratic voters who describe themselves as liberal has grown from 30 to 50 percent, according to data provided by Lydia Saad, a senior editor at the Gallup Poll.
The percentage of Democrats who say they are moderate has fallen from 44 to 35; the percentage of self-identified conservative Democrats has gone from 25 to 13 percent.
Well-educated whites, especially white women, are pushing the party decisively leftward. According to Gallup, the share of white Democrats calling themselves liberal on social issues has grown since 2001 from 39 to 61 percent. Because of this growth, white liberals are now roughly 40 percent of all Democratic voters.
While a substantial percentage of Democratic minorities identify as liberals, those percentages have not been growing at anywhere near the rate that they have for white Democrats, so blacks and Hispanics have not contributed significantly to the rising percentage of self-identified Democratic liberals. Over the past 17 years, for example, the percentage of black Democrats who identify themselves as liberals grew by a modest three percentage points, according to both Gallup and the Pew Research Center.
In fact, white liberals are well to the left of the black electorate on some racial issues.
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Its not an illusion...
“Well-educated whites, especially white women, are pushing the party decisively leftward.”
Well-educated doesn’t mean smart.
Funny, looks like a bunch of well-indoctrinated white geezers and white unmarried millennials to me.
Triggly-Puffs are moving the Democrat party toward irrelevancy.
Or maybe brainless, mindless, incapacitated, comatose, foolish, stupid, dopey, and whatever else you can think of....
A good example would be Dr. Ford.. Educated to the max, but seemingly can't even find the door...
Sane Democrat, if any survive - The View fans are running your party off a socialist cliff. #walkaway
I had 3 local ‘Rat candidates darken my door over the past few weeks. All “well-educated”. Not one had ever held a private sector job, two had been on the dole, and all were flaming, self-avowed socialists. This time around they weren’t lying about that, the socialism bit, anyway. Though I did catch them out in a variety of other lies and misstatements.
Good times, good times...
FWIW, I’m inclined to think the actual voter participation rate for fans of The View isn’t that high.
Just a feeling. :-)
Well-educated is code for well-indoctrinated.
Well-educated whites, especially white women, are pushing the party decisively leftward.
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And by “well educated”, they mean weak-minded women who’ve been indoctrinated in cultural marxism.
Well-educated whites, especially white women, are pushing the party decisively leftward.
“Well-educated doesnt mean smart.”
“Well educated” in grievance studies. They know nothing of value and have no marketable skills other than sowing discord.
Why did it take you so damn long to get your post in? Your post (and MY intended one) is the shortest but most correct. If anyone wants to see the cause of all this, look to the national and local “INDOCTRINATION CENTERS”. They can be found in the phone books under “COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES”.
They admit that their so-called "leadership" has been manipulating the masses.
From 2001 to 2018, the share of Democratic voters who describe themselves as liberal has grown from 30 to 50 percent...
Because they have conducted an unrelenting campaign of smearing and demonizing conservatives while (falsely) promoting "liberals" as the good guys. They've been successful, more people now say they're "liberal" than identifying as one of those mean old conservatives. :-/ However, are they really "liberal?"
Well-educated whites, especially white women, are pushing the party decisively leftward.
You mean well-indoctrinated. Educated they way their elitist masters want them educated, by the MSM feeding them BS 24x7.
[Well-educated whites, especially white women, are pushing the party decisively leftward.]
Those women are basically destroying themselves.
Need a geaphic of a couple ot Triggly Puffs as Thelma and Louise driving the Democrat party over a cliff.
When the final history is written it seems Obama’s greatest legacy will be that he will go down as the guy who pulled the pin on the grenade that destroyed the Democrat Party.
I must ask them what they mean by ‘Medicare for All’ or Socialized Medicine. They really don’t know other than the Government should provide Health Care for All.
“What part of ‘Thou Shalt Not Covet’ do you not understand?” I ask them.
Keep this up and the Democratic Party will split into two factions.
Except they are most definitely not liberals. They are Marxist Progressives. Big difference. Liberals (the real ones) are left of center, yes, but Progressives are communistic in how far left they are. I doubt they could go farther left without being militant Nazis or Stalinists. Oh wait!
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