I'm talking about recent elections (say, since 2000) not FORTY YEARS AGO !
Bush-Romney-McCain-Dole Repubs lost those blue collar voters. I can't imagine why ?
Reagan’s social conservatism and hawkish foreign policy did fine with white blue collar workers.
” In 1984, Reagan confirmed his support by winning nearly 60% of the popular vote and carried 49 of the 50 states.
The Reagan Democrats were members of the Democratic Party before and after the Reagan presidency, but voted for Reagan in 1980 and 1984 and for his vice president, George H. W. Bush, in 1988, producing their landslide victories. They were mostly white socially conservative blue-collar workers who lived in the Northeast and were attracted to Reagan’s social conservatism on issues such as abortion and to his hawkish foreign policy.
I'm talking about recent elections (say, since 2000) not FORTY YEARS AGO !
Bush-Romney-McCain-Dole Repubs lost those blue collar voters. I can't imagine why ?