Navigating today’s politics - illustrating how the Democratic party should proceed as they recover from the ruins of 2024
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Here’s a link to my substack, which illustrates how the Democrats should change in order to be successful again
I use the example of Oklahoma, which believe it or not, had a 4-2 Democratic delegation as recently as 1990. No, that’s not a typo - in 1990, two-thirds of the congressional delegation from Oklahoma was Democratic.
By 2000, the split had changed to 6-0 Republican. Nobody in the mainstream media ever gave a coherent answer as to why there was such a drastic change. And its not just Oklahoma. This pattern was repeated across the country, in state after state. Districts that had not elected a Republican in over a century began voting Republican at the rate of 60 percent or more. The simple reason is because voters in those rural and southern districts liked the Democrats’ economic policies but not their cultural policies.
