College degree holders increasingly vote Democratic
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The 2018 blue wave that gave control of the House to the Democrats is appearing to signal a realignment in the works, and nowhere is that more apparent than in the pattern of voters with college degrees abandoning Republicans Consider this: In 1992, RepublicCollege degree holders increasingly vote Democratic
The 2018 blue wave that gave control of the House to the Democrats is appearing to signal a realignment in the works, and nowhere is that more apparent than in the pattern of voters with college degrees abandoning Republicans Consider this: In 1992, Republicans still held half of the 30 House districts with the highest level of educational attainment. In 2019, they will hold a grand total of two. Out of 30. Among the nearly three dozen flips Democrats gained last week, 29 are in the top one-half of House districts for education levels, meaning more than 30 percent of voters have a college or advanced degree. Democratic flips in South Carolina, Oklahoma, and Georgia fit that pattern. One of the possible reasons for white, working-class voters to continue to leave the Democrats is that they have been slow to benefit from the economic recovery, whereas more educated workers came out of it faster. At the same time, there's been a shift in opinion on issues like immigration, guns, and health care. White women with degrees seem to finally be moving toward their sisters of color politically, sharply diverging from white men without degrees. «The new cultural divide is education,» Bill McInturff, a Republican pollster, told The Wall Street Journal. «Republicans are now the party of those with a high-school diploma or less,» Mr. McInturff said, «with Democrats having a totally dominating advantage among those with a postgraduate degree.» Read more