The Democratic Party has become associated with urban, black, liberal politics.
Don't think your awful wall of text will hide this line.
Why should we hide that? Nothing negative was stated. But clearly the coal miners of West Virginia who were persuaded by Clinton 1996 are not the same electorate that Democrats have to win today. They're gone for Democrats.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/11/democrats_can_t_win_white_working_class_voters_the_party_is_too_closely.html
"Working-class whites didn’t leave the Democratic Party over insufficiently populist policy and rhetoric. The liberal economic reforms of 1960s—and Medicare in particular—paid benefits to white working-class families throughout the 1970s and ’80s, even as the group moved to a decisive break with the Democrats. No, the proximate cause of the break was the Democratic Party’s close identification with black Americans, who—after the riots of the late ’60s and ’70s—became identified with urban disorder and welfare."
But wouldn't the converse of Republicans not attracting minority working-class voters also true? And shouldn't that concern any Republican, especially considering they lost the last two elections because of that?
Not giving my moral concerns but rather simply the best electoral strategy - it shouldn't be overly concerning that Republicans aren't winning working class minorities; their policies have never and likely will never benefit those folks. However, it's deeply troubling that the GOP isn't winning more affluent minorities, and it speaks to a deep image problem the GOP has culturally.
