A new report commissioned by a labor-backed group is examining a problem many Democrats might rather ignore: the exodus of working-class voters from the party they used to call home.
Some voices on the left have downplayed the significance or even denied the loss of working class voters, but the data is increasingly clear and signs of realignment are everywhere.
“We take the right wing and Republican Party seriously when they say they want to be the party of the working class,” Mitchell said.
Too often, the report argues, working-class voters are thought of as white men without college degrees, likely involved in a trade like plumbing.
If nothing else, Mitchell hopes the research will push Democrats to take seriously the erosion with working class voters and to move beyond one-size-fits all stereotypes when thinking about how to talk to working-class voters.
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