Re purchasing power of conservatives vs lefitsts
Many of the high income states are blue states. Lots of wealthy libs in the boomer generation are devoted to the issues they have loved since their glory days of the '60s-70s. The DBM has not told this realignment story. The Republican party is a much more middle ground wage-earner party.
In Maryland the farmers in the rural areas and Eastern Shore residents are Republicans, while the huge number of people on Federal paychecks are Dems. DC suburb counties [high median income], and Baltimore city [high dependency class] carry the vote for our extremely liberal vote totals. Many Catholics stay in the Dem fold because of "social justice" leanings - translated to mean virtual socialism - while averting their mind from other "social" issues - such as Right-to-Life.
Sponsors who ally with conservative media outlets expect to get treated like Dr Laura's sponsors were treated when she tried TV.
Our philosophy has been so demonized by DemMedia that changing the dynamic seems impossible to me. The dominant media treat us as Indians in cowboy country or Christians in China or....