[frosty snowman]

A third or more of labor union rank-and-file are regularly voting Republican and some union surveys suggest the shift is growing, a union campaign strategist told me.

No wonder Algore dropped the gun issue like a hot potato in 2000. The gun owning union members in Ohio and Penna. might have had something to do with that.

[Kingasaurus]

It's also worth mentioning that the higher percentage of a "minority" community that sees an increase in income and assets, and more of them move into higher income brackets where they see first hand how crippling is confiscatory taxation, the more likely they will question the reasons they vote Democrat.