The way the pendulum swing in American poltitics appears to work is this - the Democrats raise working class people to a level of prosperity where they forget who they are and begin to vote Republican. Then a gradual decline follows, until they are sufficiently impoverished to begin to vote Democrat again. Repeat.
there is still lots of poor people and these guys refuse to vote dem because for them, the futur will not change with or without the dem party at the power. Hence, they prefer to vote for gop because the gop values are their values. I think that if the dem party wants to become again the majority party, he must become populist: conservative on values (or rather: each state makes his will) and "left populist" on economy (in the RFK style). The results should be: poor people (black+white poors)+middle class+jew= majority
The only man who can make this for me is John Edwards.