Is there a place for social conservatives in the Democratic Party?

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Don't fall into the Political Compass-poisoned trap of assuming that your preferred political party ought to be your lodestar.

Your party preference doesn't need to be an important part of your identity. It doesn't need to influence your values, your associations, or how you present yourself to the world. There's a place for you in whichever party gives you more reason to vote for it than the others.

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One typical response to this question is to point to non-white social conservatives, but as other forms of demographic polarization become more important, this holds true across those dimension as well.

I'm thinking most about education. There are a lot of older, white, college-educated voters who would be comfortable voting for a McCain or a Romney even now, but who have become an important piece of the Democratic coalition over the past decade because they did not radicalize in parallel with the rest of the GOP.