Democrats Lament Loss of Working Class: ‘We’ve Become an Urban Party’

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Breitbart:

House Democrats fear that they are losing white, working-class voters due to the party’s shift toward urban and suburban voters.

 

Although Democrats gained six seats in the House, they lost all 12 Republican districts they targeted with white, non-college educated voters mostly by double-digit margins and almost suffered surprise losses in their own districts with the most blue-collar whites, Politico reports.

 

Many of those white, working-class districts have been redrawn after 2010 to make it tougher for Democrats to win in those areas and have only gotten worse since then.

 

Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH), one of the few remaining Democrats from those areas, launched a challenge against House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, citing the need to change things up if the Democrats want to take the majority.

 

Rep. Collin Peterson (D-MN), who won 53 percent of the vote in his close race in November, blamed his party’s stance on the deficit, gay rights, abortion, and the Second Amendment for turning off voters in his rural district.

 

“The party’s not going to change on those issues, so the people out there are not going to vote for Democrats,” Peterson said to Politico in an interview. “You might get some marginal difference, but we’ve become an urban party.”

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Party of the non working class.