I wonder if anyone has every followed up on workers who USED to be in Unions to see if their lot in life has improved.
With unions decreasing so much over the last 20 years it would be interesting.
I suspect with zero data that a good number of the whites who fled the democrat party are previous union members whose eyes were opened.
This was a well written and researched news story, surprising that it was printed in the Washington Post.
The only gains the Democrat party have made with white voters are young liberal college graduates already living in heavy Democrat states. I know the type and still don’t get how you can work 60 hours a week and vote for people who want to take away more of your hard earned money. They also lose a good portion of this demographic when the women marry and have multiple children. The liberal guys will typically stay liberal but 1/3 to 1/2 of the women change their voting habits.
Not abandoned. Dissed off.
The Left has completely destroyed Europe. What is happening there right now is a Genocide of the native population. It is happening in front of the whole world.
The Left in our hemisphere is planning the same Genocide for America. Soon the Venezuelan Military will act against the current Government and detonate a Syrian type civil war and “refugee crises”.
People see it.
What a clueless statement--as if the Republicans did NOT support both the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by a much higher percentage than Dems.....
Much more likely the LEFTIST move of the Democrats, in opposing the Vietnam War, and pushing for huge government regulation starting in the late '60s precipitated the move to the GOP--not racism.
My (very white) Jewish grandparents came to this country between 1912 and 1923. Being poor immigrants, they naturally gravitated to the Dems and their promises (plus everyone else in their community was voting for the Dems). However, my father’s parents ran from Communism in Russia. Over time, even my hardcore FDR-loving grandpa ended up voting for Nixon because he was a staunch anti-Soviet leader.
Fast forward to the last 20 or so years - even several of the previously left-leaning people in my extended family have started voting Republican, as they see that the Dems are the party of high taxes, onerous regulations, opposition to small business and kowtowing to the lazy in our society, plus being the party of weakness on foreign and defense affairs. In short, they see that Dems as the US Socialist Party or worse. Note that my parents saw through the Dems in the 1950s for these reasons, and haven’t looked back since, and I’ve been against the Dems for my entire life.
My fervent dream is that at least 25% of the black, and 40% of the Hispanics, in this country realize the same thing - and vote Republican. If 1/3 - 40% of the Jews can do it, then anything is possible. Things are beginning to move in that direction, and that is why the Dems have been losing seats on every level of government for over a decade - even with all of the Turd World immigration that they’ve shoved down our throats since 1965.
How I think the Republicans will be elected is a combination of two things. First is the Obama era job market that caused so many despair deaths coupled with the opioid crisis, second is the hard shift to the most hateful members of the Left. The Trump job market has been a big improvement and people now have more money in their pockets thanks to the tax plan. If Trump succeeds in pulling the party away from the Ryan cliff and to the center, I think the Democrats are going to have a very bleak November indeed. This chart to some degree says it all. https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000
“... Southern whites during the 1960s and 1970s after Democrats’ support of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965....”
And there it is-—racist whites fleeing the party because they hate any “non-whites”. Wow-—I’m so surprised by the “hit piece” once again. THIS IS THE MAIN REASON ALL ARE FLEEING THE PROPAGANDA DRIVEN LEFT WING LOONIES!
Republicans voted for and passed the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts. The democrats largely voted against both, but since LBJ was president I guess the WaPo people need to give all glory and honor to their own party.
Still waiting for my sister, brother, wife’s sister and husband, along with multitudes of other family members to wake up (all white).
They won’t because I’ve been in their arrogant faces for too long. They can’t admit they were wrong now.
I love it.
If the democraps actually did something for American workers and citizens, they might get some support.
I think the Democrats are going to rue the day that they decided to enshrine identity politics. They are stuck now. Their base is more than 50% progressive, they are racist, and the country is neither of these things. Don’t let them get away with a purely negative campaign when their actual positions are such a batshit house of cards that will do serious damage to so many of their voters.
The ‘rats collectives are anti-truth, anti-freedom, anti-individual, anti-life. Coalition of collectivists ALERT!
DemonRats are spawns from Hell...
Hillary Clinton Addresses White 'Privilege'
Didn't help her and the Democrats by calling Trump supporters 'deplorables' either.
That one backfired (but in a good way).
The constant false charges of racism are making people sick.
Their call for white males to be eliminated from everything including school curricula to the halls of corporate America and everything in between is beginning to frighten people and they are reacting.
The Democrats claming that a meritocracy is in itself a racist construct has many people shaking their heads and walking away. The Dems don’t get it.
Republicans are correcting factual errors about the civil rights movement.
Democrats are saying, 'Vote Democrat!'
A political party that sees whites as 1) The basis for every societal ill; and 2) The cash cow for treating those perceived ills shouldn’t be particularly surprised to find its portion of the white population shrink.
Because the democrat party, actually the communist party, has been doing nothing besides taking money from those who produce it, and giving it to those who vote democrat.