I remember politicos 6-7 years ago talk about Michigan as a white working class state (Macomb county), but now it seems most of the narrative is that it is a suburban upscale state (Oakland, Kent). What happened in the last few years?
The use of inserting the word
white before
working class is meant to divide.
Michigan, with Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, is now a bellwether state. They are the only three states which were carried by the United States presidential election winners of the last four cycles—2008, 2012, 2016, and 2020—and the path to the White House now goes through these three Rust Belt states.
I think enough forum members recognize this. But there are numerous who will take any of these three states and suggest that, perhaps, they are not such bellwether states but have a slight Lean to either of the two major political parties. No.
Since people are also conscious of a given U.S. presidential election’s tipping-point state, there is no avoiding the existence, for a given time, of bellwether states. This is where the current Michigan—along with Pennsylvania and Wisconsin—is at.
