Party leaders consoled themselves that at least they had managed to hang on to Black and Hispanic voters, but lately Hispanic voters, too, have begun drifting toward the G.O.P. To understand the party realignment, the three economists analyzed results of more than 800 surveys of about two million respondents since the 1940s. The authors labeled the traditional, New Deal approach as “predistributionist” and the New Democrat approach as “redistributionist.” The authors didn’t have data on why less educated voters prefer predistributionist policies. Or “voters may believe that the tax-and-transfer system is more opaque, corrupt or inefficient,” they wrote. The traditional knock on a “compensate the losers” strategy is that the promises of compensation are often unfulfilled.

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Persons: “, ”, Kuziemko, Naidu Organizations: Democratic Party, Democrat Locations: Black