No Large Metros
Much more Religious
Way less educated
Less Diverse
I like how this one election gave all you red avatars this massive boner for the fantasy that you are a part of this educated party, or that a college degree is some signal of being a Democrat. If anything, having less than a high school degree is the only thing we can definitively, election after election, tie to your voters.
Trends matter, and trends are what this thread is about. The education trend existed before 2016. Obama performed considerably better among the well-educated than Democrats had before, and Trump (IIRC, you didn't vote for him) as the current GOP leader has accelerated that trend. As long as the Republicans are lead by the Trumpsters, they won't be the thinking man's party. Trump is not Ford, let alone Lincoln.
Maybe Democrats still lead among high school dropouts, but Hillary also carried postgraduate voters by a large margin. The Democrats' favorable correlation with voters' increased education increases when looking at white voters alone.
2016 may be just one election, but I'm not sure Republicans will be able to shed their association with Donald Trump so easily in the near future.
1. Ford was considered an idiot by most Democrats.
2. There is not now and never has been and never will be a thinking man's party - a political party smarter than the other.
3.
"Every thinking person will vote for you!" - Anonymous Supporter
"That's not enough; I need a majority!" - Adlai Stevenson
