Thread by @RachelBitecofer

1. Correct Dan. I will spend the next 10 months, as Ds considers nominees for races in places like PA, reminding folks that when change finally came to the Deep South it came in the form of REALIGNMENT. W the D's NEW COALITION. Which includes the PERMANENT REALIGNMENT of college

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2. whites, bc the "preference change" wasn't a preference change entirely. A LARGE COMPONENT of it was a participation change. It was millennial & Zoomer college edu voters doing the oppo of what the COOL Boomers did in the 60s. Cool Boomers- the ones that aged and vote D & hated

3. Bush & still smoke pot & created quality over quantity industries in wine, beer, cheese, pot, basically everything that doesn't suck about this country other than @CFTalk- THAT may well be the ONLY think Republicans ever did for the country that actually was value added) so

4. we are NOT talking about the #OKBOOMER Boomers- we're talking about the 30% or so that protested Vietnam & joined Black protestors in the South even though they knew they might get murdered. But the bulk of Boomers & a big chunk of their offspring, Gen X, the "greed is good"

5. Gen-- esp. the leading end of that Gen, those folks, esp college edu whites (don't forget- all the conservative white people that loved Nixon and were so jazzed for his anti-communism war sent their kids to college, then grad schools to "respectfully" draft dodge it. Minority

6. voters, for a long time, just meant Black voters, bc our immigration laws limited immigration from non-European countries so tightly. So in terms of electoral behavior, Latino voting was a pretty limited occurrence- CA, TX, but NOTHING like today. The thing that put the US

7. on its "majority-minority" status (meaning combined, all racial minorities make the US majority non-white was the major immigration reform bill passed in the 1960s which did away with quota systems and opened up immigration from countries all over the world. Opponents

8. (many conservatives) lost their minds over that bill and warned it would destroy America by making it less white. Perhaps even causing it to one day making whites a minority.😆Anyway, that & the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act in the South making conservative whites

9. quit the Democratic Party- a massive coalitional realignment was kicked into gear. One that has been going for decades. In the 90s and 2000s the candidates Dan mentions were good nominees for states that had BBEN Dem states and were slipping away, like Arkansas. To win w just

10 enough of the old coalition if the right national tides and right candidate came along. But once the realignment hit a certain point the strategy became untenable. Its still working w Manchin in WVA, at least it was still working. But no other D can win that state. And Manchin

11. may not even be able to against the right R. Which is why it'd be nice if he could just use the f'ing power he has, while he has it. The new Dem coalition is filling up w white college edu voters who look at the modern GOP and think "OMG, I don't want to be with the stupid/

12. anti/science/racist party. There is room for growth here in two ways. Turnout bc as the young age & get educated, they increase voting- esp when they are scared (neg. partisanship) and they are living at a very scary time. And once young people start to engage- they generally

13. stay w engagement AND the party they started with. That said, I have IDEAS that I think no only can increase turnout of all voters, I have ideas that I think can persuade a couple pts additional of white voters and Latino voters. That would hurt Rs down ballot significantly.

14. But yeah- anytime someone tells you that you have to nom a tough talking white dude to win PA PLEASE for god's sake remind them that "new" GA just sent two outspoken liberal Ds to the senate on JAN 5 no less (Ds suck at special elections) AND they were not white "Blue Dogs"