The Democrats’ Working Class Voter Problem

Republicans have increasingly been talking about becoming the party of the multiracial working class. This is less far-fetched than you might think. After all, in a loose sense they already are. In the 2020 election, Trump carried the overall working class (noncollege) vote by 4 points (Catalist two party vote), about the same margin he had in 2016. The same data source also shows Republicans carrying the working class Congressional vote in three of the last four elections (the exception was 2018 when the working class vote was split down the middle between Republicans and Democrats).

Democrats have generally comforted themselves that their poor performance among the working class was purely a matter of white working class voters, who they presumed were motivated by retrograde racial and cultural attitudes. But since 2012, nonwhite working class voters have shifted away from the Democrats by 18 margin points, with a particularly sharp shift in the last election and particularly among Hispanics. This gives Democrats’ nonchalance about their losing record among working class voters a bit of a whistling past the graveyard quality.

Data since the 2020 election confirm a pattern of declining Democratic support among the nonwhite working class. Put another way: education polarization, it’s not just for white voters anymore. As a result, Democratic strength among the multiracial working class continues to weaken.…








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The GOP truly is becoming a multiracial working and middle class coalition. The polling is showing this to be true and a continuing situation. The democrat party is shrinking to an elitist bi coastal secular progressive urban elite. Their sheer arrogance and condescending nature is repulsive to the working class and to more rural voters.

 

More and more minority populations who are religious and working class, middle class, and Small business owners are becoming Republicans.

 

Despite her father’s Democratic politics, Flores says she was raised with “strong conservative values,” among them a fierce work ethic and determination to pull herself up by her bootstraps—so, she says, Republicanism was a natural fit. She was also attracted to the party’s opposition to abortion. “How can you say you have South Texas values if you’re not pro-life? South Texas is pro-life,” she says. Flores recounts how once, when she went to an anti-abortion rally in a MAGA hat, another anti-abortion protester accosted her in Spanish for supporting Trump. Flores shot back, “Eres hipócrito.” She continued in Spanish: “You’re here marching for the lives of the innocent, but in November you’re going to vote pro-abortion? Shame on you. You shouldn’t be here.”

That fighting spirit, which has only been reinforced by the flak they’ve taken, has thrust Flores, De La Cruz, and Peña-Garza into the leadership of South Texas’s burgeoning Republican party. They’re on a mission to prove that Hispanic voters are natural conservatives. For the national Republican party, electing a Latina like De La Cruz or Flores to Congress would be a sign that the party can diversify without moderating its messaging. And in Texas, where Hispanic folks are on the precipice of becoming the largest ethnic group, Republicans’ ability to attract Hispanic voters is a matter of political survival. “Everywhere I go, I tell the party, you need to start investing in the Hispanic community now,” Flores says. ..


https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/republican-latinas-rio-grande-valley/