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Whites have fled the Democratic Party. Here’s how the nation got there.
Washington Post ^ | May 22, 2018 | by Joshua N. Zingher

Posted on 05/22/2018 2:42:27 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

With the 2018 midterms months away and the 2020 presidential election cycle approaching rapidly, Democrats are considering how to improve their poor showings in 2014 and 2016. The party has been debating - sometimes heatedly - how to do this. Which voters should they target? How should Democrats target them?

But here’s what’s clear: White voters have been fleeing the Democratic Party, and that’s a big reason Democrats are looking to rebound from back-to-back losses.

Whites have slowly but consistently moved away from the Democratic Party. These recent losses are on top of Democrats’ losses among Southern whites during the 1960s and 1970s after Democrats’ support of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

My new research helps explain how Democrats got to this point. I utilized survey data from the American National Election Study that spanned 1972 to 2012 and the General Social Survey that spanned 1983 to 2014 to see how the predictors of white vote choice had changed. I found that white voters’ shift toward the Republican Party has been driven by two factors.

The first factor is that growing elite polarization has caused the electorate to “sort” along ideological lines.

On the elite level, Republicans are conservatives and Democrats are liberals. The parties are clearly divided ideologically, and there is no overlap between the two.

The second factor is that demographic changes have decreased the ratio of whites to nonwhites in the electorate. The electorate was 29 percent nonwhite in 2016. This is up from 11 percent in 1976 and 19 percent in 2000.

This is politically important because the average white voter is more economically conservative and more socially liberal on issues such as abortion, gay rights and so on than the average nonwhite voter.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2018midterms; democrats; endwhiteshaming; progressives; race; socialists; whitevote
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To: Parley Baer

There is no space for wypepo in the democrat party.


61 posted on 05/22/2018 3:28:21 PM PDT by ichabod1 (If there is to be war, let it begin here.)
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To: RedMonqey

Nope. White Republican women and black any kind of women get the abortions.


62 posted on 05/22/2018 3:29:37 PM PDT by j.argese (/s tags: If you have a mind unnecessary. If you're a cretin it really doesn't matter, does it?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The DNC is bleeding Christians. Believing Christians find themselves pushed out of the party.

And people who become Christians, while initially Democrat, (if a church is growing, you should see DNC bumper stickers in the parking lot)... over time, find that they can no longer remain in the party. It takes a few years, sometimes, for their political identity to shift, but to the degree that they are serious about their faith, their departure is inevitable.


63 posted on 05/22/2018 3:32:32 PM PDT by marron
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I didn’t leave the Democrat party, it left me. ~~RR (and millions of other God, family, country patriots)


64 posted on 05/22/2018 3:37:46 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The Democratic Party has elements of anti-white ideology....

White suburban and white rural voters don’t want that.

White urban and hippie people are the only people that Democrats have right now....


65 posted on 05/22/2018 3:42:44 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

No mention of the fact that the Dems went from the party of White Supremacy and used the KKK and other race-bating of blacks to maintain white support, to becoming the party of non-White Supremacy and are now using BLM and other race-bating of whites to maintain non-white support.


66 posted on 05/22/2018 3:43:18 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: Hugin

The Erase and Replace agenda has been rolling for decades.


67 posted on 05/22/2018 3:43:46 PM PDT by Architect of Avalon
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
The Democrats of the 60’s and 70’s switched parties and are the Republicans of today. Steven Spielberg told me that.

Whenever some liberal pulls out that old canard, I simply ask them, "Name one" and they never can.

Not Robert Byrd. Not Bull Connor. Not Al Gore Sr. Not George Wallace. They all stayed with the Democratic Party until death.

If they weren't historically illiterate, a liberal could name Jesse Helms, but I've yet to meet one who wasn't historically illiterate.

68 posted on 05/22/2018 3:46:28 PM PDT by dead
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To: Parley Baer

And full of self hate.


69 posted on 05/22/2018 3:46:58 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
As long as their leader Schumer protects these animals:

plus they seem to like

70 posted on 05/22/2018 3:51:10 PM PDT by yoe
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Even the Post is forced to admit without saying it that the Democratic hatred of whites in general and white men in particular is biting it in the butt and costing it dearly. Too bad, the Dumb o craps deserve what they have brought on themselves.


71 posted on 05/22/2018 3:51:22 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: noiseman
The dem’s dilemma is that they have to be pretty crazy and out there to attract the fringe elements they depend upon to cobble together a winning voting bloc, but it is just that craziness that is beginning to drive away many of their more traditional supporters, like white labor union members, and those who are fiscally liberal but socially more conservative.

The Democrats have fallen victim to the common human falacy of doing the same thing that has worked well in the past despite increasingly shrinking or negative results. The Democrat Party will ride the SJW train all the way down to hell before they change their minds. The Democrat Party is so sad that they cannot ditch fossils like Biden and Pelosi.

The Democrat Party will continue to shriek at the rest of America as it shrivels into an urban issues advocacy group.

72 posted on 05/22/2018 3:52:46 PM PDT by WMarshal (Molon Labe!)
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To: noiseman
The dem’s dilemma is that they have to be pretty crazy and out there to attract the fringe elements they depend upon to cobble together a winning voting bloc, but it is just that craziness that is beginning to drive away many of their more traditional supporters, like white labor union members, and those who are fiscally liberal but socially more conservative.

The Democrats have fallen victim to the common human falacy of doing the same thing that has worked well in the past despite increasingly shrinking or negative results. The Democrat Party will ride the SJW train all the way down to hell before they change their minds. The Democrat Party is so sad that they cannot ditch fossils like Biden and Pelosi.

The Democrat Party will continue to shriek at the rest of America as it shrivels into an urban issues advocacy group.

73 posted on 05/22/2018 3:52:47 PM PDT by WMarshal (Molon Labe!)
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To: noiseman
The dem’s dilemma is that they have to be pretty crazy and out there to attract the fringe elements they depend upon to cobble together a winning voting bloc, but it is just that craziness that is beginning to drive away many of their more traditional supporters, like white labor union members, and those who are fiscally liberal but socially more conservative.

The Democrats have fallen victim to the common human falacy of doing the same thing that has worked well in the past despite increasingly shrinking or negative results. The Democrat Party will ride the SJW train all the way down to hell before they change their minds. The Democrat Party is so sad that they cannot ditch fossils like Biden and Pelosi.

The Democrat Party will continue to shriek at the rest of America as it shrivels into an urban issues advocacy group.

74 posted on 05/22/2018 3:52:50 PM PDT by WMarshal (Molon Labe!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Actually it is people black, white, yellow, red, and mixed heritage who have any sense of morality or honer that are moving away from the Democrat Party. The Dems have been chasing out anyone who doesn't adhere to the Socialist dogma it preaches for decades.
75 posted on 05/22/2018 3:54:02 PM PDT by Yulee
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

#DLM?


76 posted on 05/22/2018 3:55:06 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

And Kanye West is driving out the blacks from the DNC - pretty soon it’ll just be Muzzies.


77 posted on 05/22/2018 3:59:40 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The Democrats have made it clear that they hate white people. Why would anyone vote for them?


78 posted on 05/22/2018 3:59:51 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

whites are smart enough to not want higher taxes that are wasted


79 posted on 05/22/2018 4:02:58 PM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So this genius journalist is “studying” the problem? I’ll spell it out for him and it won’t take more than a minute.

* Democrats are not patriots anymore. They are citizens of the world rather than citizens of the USA. They think that patriotism is the same as nationalism. They melt into globs of goo when they hear Lee Greenwood’s rendition of “God Bless the USA.”
* Democrats endorsed high volume non-white immigration from the third world, permanently affecting the demographics of the country.
* The policies of Democrats are indistinguishable from those of the Frankfurt School, e.g., cultural Marxism.
* Democrats are not the party of faith.

I think that about sums it up.


80 posted on 05/22/2018 4:03:18 PM PDT by tom h
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