Excellent post. I work with a LOT of upper middle class immigrants in Silicon Valley and I am dismayed that so many of them are bewildered by the free market economy of their adopted land. I frequently hear them call for more government control and regulation to reduce all the uncertainties and vagaries of life. It is clear they bring their central statist, authoritarian views with them from Europe, Russia, China, India and Latin America. So it is natural they migrate to the Dem party.
The three decade shift away from the Republican Party shown in Table 4 is really alarming.
The educated immigrants want strong central government to reduce risk and uncertainty. The lower class immigrants simply want more free stuff. Together, they strengthen the Dems enormously. It ain’t for nothing the Republicans are called the Stupid Party.
I agree.
Republicans need to stop selling out our very own country. (I’m not just picking on the GOP because the Dems are just as bad)
Everyone is selling out the USA.
We need to bring back jobs, and stop hiring everyone else. Hire Americans.
Bring back American companies, and American jobs.
For crying out loud. We have sold out America for more than an entire generation.
China now makes more than American makes.
Bring back jobs to the USA.
It is clear they bring their central statist, authoritarian views with them from Europe, Russia, China, India and Latin America. So it is natural they migrate to the Dem party.
We have clearly entered the era of tribal politics and our tribe is getting smaller while the other tribes are growing. The Republic will be lost thru the ballot box.
