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 ...
It’s simple. Whites don’t want to be oppressed by racial ideologies.
Such whites believe the mantra of the Democrats watching over “the common man.”
Red voters are flocking to the new democrat party and
Rainbow voters are still totally over the bridge for dems.
I’m confused.
I thought Republicans supported the Civil Rights Act.
I also thought a lot of old school union Democrats, like my dad, felt that the party left them. They didn’t leave the party.
At this point I can’t understand why ANY straight white males, especially Christian, would be interested in their platform - it does not want them!
Amazing how many people don't pick up on this like you have. White Protestant culture is very individualistic. Even within the family, we tend to be formal and a little aloof. On the positive side, I think it is why we have accomplished so much. White parents tend to let their kids become whoever they're going to be. And in terms of society, we don't police each other. Weirdos and loners thrive in white society. Eccentricity is accepted. But the down side is, unless we have numbers on our side, or a very specific cause to rally around, we could be overrun by clannish hordes. I used to joke that the only way to get whites to riot is to first get them together at a concert or sporting event, THEN get them angry. It has to be in that order or you'll just get a lot of strongly-worded e-mails.
If you give white men a uniform and official sanction they will kill everything that moves.
It’s the “official sanction” part that’s tricky.
It’s mostly women
They fall for the socialist crap
But they have been actively courting Hamas and MS-13.
That's about it.
Basically they are trying to import an entire new electorate as the existing one is abandoning them.
“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.”
I see this BS constantly from Leftists. Notice how they try to excuse away their own alienating of White Southerners as being due to the favorite of all Leftist accusations, Racism! Uhh no. The reason you lost support among Southern Whites was that you drifted ever more leftward despite the fact that White Southerners have never been Leftists. They revere the Founders and are instinctively conservative right down to their bones.....and having been on the receiving end of some very oppressive treatment by the federal government, they are really not inclined to trust it.
So...do you Democrats, the party that had been in a dominant position in Dixie for over 100 years take note of this and put the brakes on that leftward drift? Why....no! Of course not! You just keep going - and try to centralize all power in Washington DC. Then you insult White Southerners for not supporting you. At that point, you could kiss them goodbye.
Now White non left coast Westerners and working class White voters in much of the Midwest have also figured out you have nothing but contempt for them too. Oh wait. Let me guess. Your excuse for this will be “racism!” too. Go ahead. See where that gets you.
Bingo. They can’t seem to figure out that insulting anybody White who dares question them or disagree with them about any issue is not a good strategy for winning that person’s vote back. Ever.
The average white voter, no matter how left-wing, is starting to see that non-white Democrats don't like white people. Over time, survival overcomes ideology.
Barf. Stopped here: “Democrats’ support of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.” More Republicans voted for the act than racist Demscum.
It has a way of showing them they are full of crap. Hard to virtue signal when it’s YOUR 16 year old daughter that wants to grow up and marry a Rapper.
More revisionist history by this piece of crap article...
The demoncrats fought hammer and sickle against that Act...Since it was only passed thanks to strong GOP support, it should mean that whiteys should have been leaving the GOP...
Great observation. As an aging white American, I haven’t recognized the country I grew up in, in some time
“Democrats are not patriots anymore.”
DemocRATS hate:
- America
- White people
- Conservatives/Republicans
- Heterosexuals and other normals
- Guns and the Constitution
- Religions other than Islam, Satan worship, Wiccan
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