reagan hardly realigned things, he just strengthened the nixon coallition
Thats the whole point Im trying to make
Reagan coalition was basically Nixon Coalition in full swing
the Next Dem Coalition will be Obama in full swing, or the Sunbelt will probably swing back to the GOP with a bernie style dem president
If you're suggesting the only way a Democratic President can realign the country in the future is by being more economically to the right in order to win *Sun Belt suburbanites*, that's absurd.
To be fair, saying that dems would need to move to the economic right to win sun belt suburbanites in sufficient numbers to win elections is not necessarily true - the GOP has burned a lot of goodwill in those areas, particularly on education and healthcare.
They don’t need to move further right they just can’t move to the populist left either to win those areas in the long run
