schmidlap
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Virginia, Colorado, Georgia, Arizona. The times they are a'changin.'
However, rather than riding the wave, it is imperative that the Democratic Party address the legitimate grievances of less-educated, aging White males, a previously loyal base whose support the Party squandered.
The new President Americans elected with over 80 million votes supposedly has blue-collar creds. If so, he should be able to win back that demographic from a failed casino operator and faded reality-tv performer with all those "New York values."
Picture, if you will...
However, rather than riding the wave, it is imperative that the Democratic Party address the legitimate grievances of less-educated, aging White males, a previously loyal base whose support the Party squandered.
The economic and education partisan divides widened. Mr. Biden gained in well-educated suburbs and exurbs, often in places that have tended to vote Republican in recent decades, like the Atlanta, Dallas and Phoenix areas.
Colorado has one of the nation’s highest rates of people with a four-year college degree, and this year it solidified its status as a blue state. Colorado’s shift against Mr. Trump was 8.6 points, second only to Vermont’s nine points.
A part of conservative-leaning Kentucky posted one of the bigger anti-Trump shifts. The Lexington-Fayette, Ky., metropolitan area, which flipped from red to blue and is home to the University of Kentucky, has the highest percentage of college graduates in the region, and is in the top fifth of metros for college attainment.
And what about the big swing in the Huntsville area in deep-red Alabama? Fast-growing places with brighter economic prospects — correlated with a higher number of people with college degrees and more jobs in professional, tech and creative fields — moved toward Mr. Biden. A highly educated work force in Huntsville, first put to use in industries like aerospace, has become attractive to other businesses in recent years.
Suburban areas in Nebraska swung significantly toward Mr. Biden. Nebraska’s Second Congressional District, which includes well-educated Omaha, contributed one electoral vote to Mr. Biden’s tally... The swing was 8.8 points, as the district flipped from red to blue.
The Places That Had the Biggest Swings Toward and Against Trump
Education was a key dividing line, but other things mattered, too.
www.nytimes.com
The new President Americans elected with over 80 million votes supposedly has blue-collar creds. If so, he should be able to win back that demographic from a failed casino operator and faded reality-tv performer with all those "New York values."
Picture, if you will...
A fat old White guy in a goofy red hat is at play, smugly ensconced in a flashy golf cart, tooling across the manicured greens of an exclusive playground for well-healed elites.
Suddenly, out of the rough, anther old codger appears, sporting a construction helmet and gunning his fork lift!
Terror ensues!
That water hazard does nothing for the city slicker's hairdo.
(Ducks quacking. Fade to black.)
I'm Schmidlap, and I endorse this message.
Given inexorable demographic trends, what do you imagine that the political map will look like in 2024?