Posted on 02/21/2019 11:46:06 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The early days of the 2020 presidential primary have shown the Democratic Party is in flux and having a robust debate about what its future will look like. And while that debate is centered on progressive policies like "Medicare-for-all," the Green New Deal and how much to tax the rich, it's being fueled by shifting demographics within the party.
New research from Gallup released Tuesday reveals the party is getting less white, more educated, less religious and progressively more liberal since 2001. Notably, the party's liberal shift is mostly driven by white Democrats, while nonwhite Democrats make up a larger share of the moderate and conservative wings of the party.
From 2013 through 2018, an average of 46% of Democrats identified as "liberal," compared with 35% of respondents who said they were "moderate" and 17% who called themselves "conservative," according to Gallup. That's a stark jump from the previous six years: From 2007 through 2012, those who identified as "liberal" or "moderate" were basically the same -- 39% and 38%, respectively.
The change is largely driven by the increasingly liberal leanings of whites and college graduates within the party.
According to the research, the percentage of nonwhite Democrats has gone up to an average of 43% in 2013-2018 from an average of 31% in 2001-2006. White people now make up 56% of the party, a 12-point drop from 2001-2006.
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“More educated”
No
More indoctrinated.
Yes
proof that higher education is usually a bad thing
Define “more educated”. Going to college and in many cases getting a useless degree does not make you a smart person.
Degrees in the arts and humanities do not count as “being more educated.”
They still can’t do math to save their souls.
The fact that AOC has an economics degree highlights the fallacy of being “more educated”.
the very last thing the D party is getting is “more liberal!”
rather, it is getting more and more totalitarian/dictatorially oriented
at the far communist/Nazi left, of course
(doctrinaire people are NOT liberal, liberal includes the concepts of open-mindedness, rationality, and fairness in considering ideas or policies)
We definitely see that with Ocasio-Cortez.
She has an economics degree, but doesn’t know how the unemployment rate is calculated.
She thinks that since the $3 billion in tax abatements will not be going to Amazon with that deal being scuttled, that now they have $3 billion in the bank to repair the subway.
She disregards any concerns about cost of the green new deal, because we only have 12 years to deal with global warming, thus, we can’t debate little details such as how much it will cost, or where the money or physical labor to retrofit every building in America will come from.
Degrees in Grievance Group Studies don’t count either.
They think they are better educated.
Anyone can be taught to hold a bull horn and scream at people
‘Educated’’ and “Democrat’’ are contradictions in terms.
re: “The Democratic Party is getting less white, more educated — and significantly more liberal”
Well, two out the three. Guess which two?
More educated like Occasional Cortex, the assured next Nobel Prize winner on economics?
The Democratic Party is getting less white, more educated — and significantly more liberal
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The Democratic Party is getting less white, more educated — and significantly more LEFTIST.
There...I fixed it.
The Democratic Party is getting less white, more educated — and significantly more liberal
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The Democratic Party is getting less white, more educated — and significantly more LEFTIST.
There...I fixed it.
Not more liberal....more leftist is the correct terminology
sarcasm is not always meant to be the truth. Tye comment was directed at the idiots in the photos and the comment that they are more educated.
“...Degrees in the arts and humanities do not count as “being more educated.”...”
Was not that way decades ago, but given the liberal ability to excrete upon everything they touch...
They’ve got their eyes on the sciences. And one can view the daily barrage of laughable “science” online concerning “climate change”.
The sh*tflow continues.
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