As a final note when I say democrats should target the rust belt im talking about getting higher Nonwhite and youth turnout in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Ann Arbor, Milwaukee, and Madison not screwing around in rural white areas that will never vote for you.
I don't agree about NC. Obama won it once, Democrats have won Senate seats and statewide elections multiple times over the past 10 years, and 2020 will have a hotly contested Senate Race.Not openly offending such demographics does not equal "pandering." Who said anything about winning *racist* WWC voters? Or *xenophobic* WWC voters? Or *sexist* WWC voters? All WWC means is "White without a college degree" (which is immensely dumb, as there are plenty of rich, White Baby Boomers without a degree and tons of lower-middle class, White Millennials with a college degree, but that's another conversation). There are a LOT of those voters who were perfectly willing to vote Democratic before Hillary Clinton, and they're not the ones that you see in video clips at Trump rallies or commenting on Breitbart articles about Roy Moore ... that should be obvious. To write off the entire "WWC" demographic is so immensely stupid that I could actually see the DNC doing it.
Anyway, yes, Democrats should focus on diverse areas of the Sun Belt and areas that have recently voted Democratic in the Rust Belt. Win back both of those areas (which isn't hard with an unpopular Trump, IMO), and they're set. Period. Write off one or the other, and ... well, you deserve your historically low levels of power in Washington.
