Chart of the Day: Democrats and the White Working Class

Here’s a chart for you to ponder over: Between 1992 and 2008, the identification of the white working class with the Democratic Party stayed pretty stable. No matter who the presidential candidate was—Clinton, Gore, Kerry, or Obama—they were about evenly split beween identifying Democratic and identifying Republican. That was true all the way up to … Continue reading Chart of the Day: Democrats and the White Working Class