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Dramatic realignment swings working-class districts toward GOP

Author:     Stef W. Kight
Source:     Axios
Publication Date:     12 April 2023
 Link: Dramatic realignment swings working-class districts toward GOP
Stephan:  

This is a data-based assessment of what is happening with voters, showing how the Red Blue schism is playing out. What it doesn’t seem to get is that while it accurately reports the Republican Party is becoming a party of lower income, lower education, largely rural White voters it does not report that these voters are manipulated by the oligarchs who now own the Republican Party, and are turning the United States into an anocracy.

Data: Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) office and Ballotpedia; Note: Districts where there was no opponent in the 2022 midterm election are not included; Chart: Alice Feng/Axios

Nine of the top 10 wealthiest congressional districts are represented by Democrats, while Republicans now represent most of the poorer half of the country, according to median income data provided by Rep. Marcy Kaptur’s (D-Ohio) office.

Why it matters: The last several decades have ushered in a dramatic political realignment, as the GOP has broadened its appeal to a more diverse working class and Democrats have become the party of wealthier, more-educated voters.

  • “Republicans were the party of the country club, and they’re increasingly the party of country,” lobbyist and political analyst Bruce Mehlman told Axios.
  • “We have seen an inversion of Democrat and Republican shares of the highest- and lowest-income districts — and the highest and lowest college degree-holding districts,” Cook Political Report’s Dave Wasserman told Axios.

By the numbers: 64% of congressional districts with median incomes below the national median are now represented by Republicans — a shift in historical party demographics, the data […]

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