Describe a rich Mondale-Trump voter and a poor Reagan-Biden voter

[CadetCashBoi]

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[darklordoftech]

rich Mondale-Trump voter: hates free trade, either for ideological reasons or because they fear competition to their business

poor Reagan-Biden voter: was swept up by the Reagan Revolution but became a Democrat when America polarized or thought Trump was unfit to be President

[Mr. Smith]

The latter could describe many WWCs that just didn't like Mondale's tax hikes...only to find Reagan did the same.

The former would have to be probably some Evangelical from Minnesota. Or even an ancestral Democrat.

[wnwnwn]

1 Some rich ancestrally dem catholic. That people that supported the civil rights movement but never supported same sex marriage.
2 Poor latino worried about national defense, who thinks Putin is new Brezhnev

[CadetCashBoi]

The latter could describe many WWCs that just didn't like Mondale's tax hikes...only to find Reagan did the same.

The former would have to be probably some Evangelical from Minnesota. Or even an ancestral Democrat.

Maybe a coal executive would be another example of the former?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

The latter could describe many WWCs that just didn't like Mondale's tax hikes...only to find Reagan did the same.

The former would have to be probably some Evangelical from Minnesota. Or even an ancestral Democrat.

Maybe a coal executive would be another example of the former?

Coal executives have always been Republican. It was the rank and file miners who voted for Democrats historically and for Mondale because of the strength of unions in that sector. The executives were always anti-union.

[Schiff for Senate]

The latter could describe many WWCs that just didn't like Mondale's tax hikes...only to find Reagan did the same.

The former would have to be probably some Evangelical from Minnesota. Or even an ancestral Democrat.

Maybe a coal executive would be another example of the former?

Coal executives have always been Republican. It was the rank and file miners who voted for Democrats historically and for Mondale because of the strength of unions in that sector. The executives were always anti-union.

Yeah, and Reagan was literally the perfect candidate for the anti-union executives, what with his response to the airport strikers in 1981.

[Sumner 1868]

Maybe some LGBT voters who got caught up in the ISIS/ISIL panic after Pulse for the first option. For the second, a good chunk of Hispanics would be the obvious answer.

[OSR stands with Israel]

Maybe some LGBT voters who got caught up in the ISIS/ISIL panic after Pulse for the first option. For the second, a good chunk of Hispanics would be the obvious answer.

Reagan won 46% of the Hispanic vote according to LA Times and 49% according to ABC . The exits that year widely varied between the networks

[Alcibiades]

Coal executives have always been Republican. It was the rank and file miners who voted for Democrats historically and for Mondale because of the strength of unions in that sector. The executives were always anti-union.

You’re of course right that the vast majority of coal executives would have voted for Reagan, but it’s worth noting that in West Virginia in particular, many were registered Democrats and involved in Democratic politics. Joe Manchin is a prime recent example of this, as to an extent is Jim Justice (though he was a Republican until he decided to run for governor). This makes sense — given that the Democrats were dominant at the state level in West Virginia, your best bet if you wanted to influence policy was probably to work within the party, even if you were ideologically a Republican.

You still see similar phenomena today — for instance, a centre-right business type who gets involved in politics is likely to be a Republican in the South, but a Democrat in the Northeast.

[wnwnwn]

Coal executives have always been Republican. It was the rank and file miners who voted for Democrats historically and for Mondale because of the strength of unions in that sector. The executives were always anti-union.

You’re of course right that the vast majority of coal executives would have voted for Reagan, but it’s worth noting that in West Virginia in particular, many were registered Democrats and involved in Democratic politics. Joe Manchin is a prime recent example of this, as to an extent is Jim Justice (though he was a Republican until he decided to run for governor). This makes sense — given that the Democrats were dominant at the state level in West Virginia, your best bet if you wanted to influence policy was probably to work within the party, even if you were ideologically a Republican.

You still see similar phenomena today — for instance, a centre-right business type who gets involved in politics is likely to be a Republican in the South, but a Democrat in the Northeast.

Do you think Dan Goldman would be an R in the South?