The very last statement -- "A less racially divided America is an America where people vote more based on their beliefs than their identity" -- may explain why the Dems are trying so hard to keep the country as racially divided as they can.
You know part of it might be they see the all the illegals coming in and all the services and money going towards them and going, "wait, you had the resources to help us all along and now you are replacing us!?"
The Democrats are now totally owned and operated by the Brahmin Left, which consists of upscale educated urbanites who have converted to the Church of Social Justice (and who have the zeal of converts).
The first thing that separates this group from the rest of us (besides the actual beliefs in themselves) is that politics for these people is almost entirely SYMBOLIC (sorry, Substack needs italics).
This is how you come up with preposterous ideas like Defund the Police, which could only be claimed by someone who never needs the police (and who's never been punched in the nose); Open the Borders!, which only someone whose job can't be replaced would agree with, not to mention someone with more allegiance to abstractions like Justice and Equality than to home or nation; and of course the inalienable human right for kids to read gay porn in JHS, hide their "gender" from their parents, and receive an immediate state-funded sex-change operation, this belief being motivated by a demented form of egalitarianism where if one child is confused about their sexuality, Justice demands they all be confused about their sexuality.
That this all seems stupid and insane to the rest of us is something they'll never know, as Brahmin Leftists only know or speak to other Brahmin Leftists and have convinced themselves that anyone who disagrees w them is an evil bigot who deserves nothing but scorn if not jail.
The irony here is that while these people have based their entire lives around the hatred of Trump, Trump is the only thing keeping them from an electoral rout. A normal non-insane charismatic center-right Republican would have the aristocrats of Social Justice living inside their shrink's offices.
Isn’t the left surprised to find out that people actually think, and don’t vote based on skin color? Whatever will the left do to counteract this trend? They gave up thinking a long time ago.
"A less racially divided America is an America where people vote more based on their beliefs than their identity. This is a big challenge for Dems."
Yes, and I assume why the Dem political machine is so committed to segregation and screaming that identity is the only thing that matters.
One question... what the heck is wrong with the American Asian demographic? I would have expected a much more profound turn to the Republican party given all the racial abuse they suffer from the Democrat machine.
One last comment. Even with all this good news of political party identity from social pressure being replaced with alignment to actual personal values and opinions, I expect the Republicans to screw it all up with more idiocy like another Handmaiden's Tale move against abortion rights. Because it seems to me that all this movement of different demographic groups is minor compared to the filtering that seems to be the case today where the Democrat party is generally the party of the female voters, and the Republican party is generally that of the male electorate. I think that explains why the Democrats are from Venus and the Republicans from Mars.
All this is interesting, but what party do most of the poll workers belong to? How about the alignment of the companies that make the voting machines? The votes count, but unfortunately, the vote counters count more.
Alternative title: "Republican voters 'of color' are twice as intelligent as Democratic voters as a whole, in one graph (that even Dems can understand)."
According to these results and this man, the less racially divided we are, the more voters Democrats lose. The Dems need us to stay divided racially because if black and white people talk, we realize we both want much the same. And, the man just flat-out says this is bad for them. Now, we know why they stoke the race divide.
"...with non-white proximity to Democrats now at its lowest since the 1960s, before the civil rights movement and the 1964 election which aligned Black voters with the Dems and against the GOP."
I have always wondered at this because a majority of Democrats voted *against* the '64 Civil Rights bill and a vast majority of Republicans voted *for* it. Just how did the Democrats capture Blacks after this?!
Of course, the Democrats under LBJ effectively lied about Goldwater that year also, and proceeded to give us Vietnam.
Another election cycle and another prediction that minorities will vote Republican. See also, blexit and the perpetual 'muh natural conservative hispanic' meme. Never going to happen.
The majority of blacks & browns vote with their wallets (ie, they vote for perpetual gibs promised to them from the Democrats and taken from whites) -- the majority of black women in particular are incredibly hostile to anything 'white' (which the Republican Party certainly is by in large) and they are more both more reliable and more consistent voters than black men. Asians as a whole are simply too communal/consensus-seeking by their nature to stick their neck out -- and their voting patterns reflect their yielding to pop-culture (ie, Left/Democrat) norms. Hispanics may be Christian nominally, but Latin America is littered with the husks of socialist-to-communist revolutions in country after country -- the siren song of gibs is a strong one.
Keep trying for that football, Charlie Brown -- surely Lucy won't yank it away again.
That won’t happen however given how he has so alienated so much of the voting public, including Republicans. Four years ago, the Democrats chose someone they believed would be most likely to win, not the one who most represented their Liberal extremist views. Republicans could yet genuinely regret not doing similar & have voted for Niki Haley instead, who would have been unbeatable. DeSantis has considerable main stream media baggage, but he would have done better in the general election too. Republicans need to realize that the general election includes Independents, who statistically make up a large proportion of the electorate that either major party. It’s Not Democrats vs Republicans. Most people don’t like either & just choose the lesser poison.
The very last statement -- "A less racially divided America is an America where people vote more based on their beliefs than their identity" -- may explain why the Dems are trying so hard to keep the country as racially divided as they can.
You know part of it might be they see the all the illegals coming in and all the services and money going towards them and going, "wait, you had the resources to help us all along and now you are replacing us!?"
The Democrats are now totally owned and operated by the Brahmin Left, which consists of upscale educated urbanites who have converted to the Church of Social Justice (and who have the zeal of converts).
The first thing that separates this group from the rest of us (besides the actual beliefs in themselves) is that politics for these people is almost entirely SYMBOLIC (sorry, Substack needs italics).
This is how you come up with preposterous ideas like Defund the Police, which could only be claimed by someone who never needs the police (and who's never been punched in the nose); Open the Borders!, which only someone whose job can't be replaced would agree with, not to mention someone with more allegiance to abstractions like Justice and Equality than to home or nation; and of course the inalienable human right for kids to read gay porn in JHS, hide their "gender" from their parents, and receive an immediate state-funded sex-change operation, this belief being motivated by a demented form of egalitarianism where if one child is confused about their sexuality, Justice demands they all be confused about their sexuality.
That this all seems stupid and insane to the rest of us is something they'll never know, as Brahmin Leftists only know or speak to other Brahmin Leftists and have convinced themselves that anyone who disagrees w them is an evil bigot who deserves nothing but scorn if not jail.
The irony here is that while these people have based their entire lives around the hatred of Trump, Trump is the only thing keeping them from an electoral rout. A normal non-insane charismatic center-right Republican would have the aristocrats of Social Justice living inside their shrink's offices.
Isn’t the left surprised to find out that people actually think, and don’t vote based on skin color? Whatever will the left do to counteract this trend? They gave up thinking a long time ago.
"A less racially divided America is an America where people vote more based on their beliefs than their identity. This is a big challenge for Dems."
Yes, and I assume why the Dem political machine is so committed to segregation and screaming that identity is the only thing that matters.
One question... what the heck is wrong with the American Asian demographic? I would have expected a much more profound turn to the Republican party given all the racial abuse they suffer from the Democrat machine.
One last comment. Even with all this good news of political party identity from social pressure being replaced with alignment to actual personal values and opinions, I expect the Republicans to screw it all up with more idiocy like another Handmaiden's Tale move against abortion rights. Because it seems to me that all this movement of different demographic groups is minor compared to the filtering that seems to be the case today where the Democrat party is generally the party of the female voters, and the Republican party is generally that of the male electorate. I think that explains why the Democrats are from Venus and the Republicans from Mars.
All this is interesting, but what party do most of the poll workers belong to? How about the alignment of the companies that make the voting machines? The votes count, but unfortunately, the vote counters count more.
Alternative title: "Republican voters 'of color' are twice as intelligent as Democratic voters as a whole, in one graph (that even Dems can understand)."
According to these results and this man, the less racially divided we are, the more voters Democrats lose. The Dems need us to stay divided racially because if black and white people talk, we realize we both want much the same. And, the man just flat-out says this is bad for them. Now, we know why they stoke the race divide.
Thanks for this, Brad. I generally avoid the FT for its Left leaning anti-Capitalism.
4th X in series:
"...with non-white proximity to Democrats now at its lowest since the 1960s, before the civil rights movement and the 1964 election which aligned Black voters with the Dems and against the GOP."
I have always wondered at this because a majority of Democrats voted *against* the '64 Civil Rights bill and a vast majority of Republicans voted *for* it. Just how did the Democrats capture Blacks after this?!
Of course, the Democrats under LBJ effectively lied about Goldwater that year also, and proceeded to give us Vietnam.
Thanks for a very informative read.
Hoping for the "preference cascade" to cascade in the "right" direction
Another election cycle and another prediction that minorities will vote Republican. See also, blexit and the perpetual 'muh natural conservative hispanic' meme. Never going to happen.
The majority of blacks & browns vote with their wallets (ie, they vote for perpetual gibs promised to them from the Democrats and taken from whites) -- the majority of black women in particular are incredibly hostile to anything 'white' (which the Republican Party certainly is by in large) and they are more both more reliable and more consistent voters than black men. Asians as a whole are simply too communal/consensus-seeking by their nature to stick their neck out -- and their voting patterns reflect their yielding to pop-culture (ie, Left/Democrat) norms. Hispanics may be Christian nominally, but Latin America is littered with the husks of socialist-to-communist revolutions in country after country -- the siren song of gibs is a strong one.
Keep trying for that football, Charlie Brown -- surely Lucy won't yank it away again.
That won’t happen however given how he has so alienated so much of the voting public, including Republicans. Four years ago, the Democrats chose someone they believed would be most likely to win, not the one who most represented their Liberal extremist views. Republicans could yet genuinely regret not doing similar & have voted for Niki Haley instead, who would have been unbeatable. DeSantis has considerable main stream media baggage, but he would have done better in the general election too. Republicans need to realize that the general election includes Independents, who statistically make up a large proportion of the electorate that either major party. It’s Not Democrats vs Republicans. Most people don’t like either & just choose the lesser poison.