Ravi
Diamond Member
Republicans Are Normal, Democrats Are Not - Michael Barone (usnews.com)This is similar but not identical to a point I've often made: that the Republican Party is the party of people who are considered, by themselves and by others, as normal AmericansNorthern white Protestants in the 19th century, married white Christians more recentlywhile the Democratic Party is the party of the out groups who are in some sense seen, by themselves and by others, as not normalwhite Southerners and Catholic immigrants in the 19th century, blacks and white seculars more recently.