DPKdebator
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« on: July 30, 2020, 02:53:37 PM » |
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Demographic changes and generation turnover play a vastly larger role in explaining the shifting of voting patterns over the past four decades. Many working class whites and union members do not have the institutional connection to the Democrats that their parents or grandparents did, which explains the shift of states like West Virginia and Ohio to the Republicans. On the other hand, states that have significantly diversified like California have seen a Democratic trend, while generational turnover in Vermont saw old Yankee Republicans replaced by younger hippie flatlanders and their descendants as the dominant political force in the state.
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