Blue Snobs

Democrats have become the new elitists:

The gist of this piece is that Democrats used to be seen as the party of the working class, including the white working class, but they aren't that any longer, at least not exclusively. In fact, there has been quite a shift among people at the top of the income ladder toward the Dems. The numbers show that white voters in the 68th to 100th income percentiles — the top third — cast 49.05 percent of their ballots for Joe Biden and 50.95 for Donald Trump. White voters in the top 5 percent of the income distribution voted 52.9 percent for Biden and 47.1 percent for Trump. These figures stand in sharp contrast to election results as recent as those of 2008. Among white voters in the top third of the income distribution that year, John McCain, the Republican nominee, beat Barack Obama 67.1 percent to 32.9 percent. So Republicans used to dominate top earners but not anymore. This shift has been taking place since the 1990s but in the past ten years the Democrats have become the party of the wealthy and well-educated. And the problem is that Democrats haven't really adjusted to this new reality. They still see themselves as the party of the working class even though they really aren't that anymore. As the founder of a Democratic consulting firm put it, "Democrats are lost without that core idea."

The Blues aren't blue collar anymore...