Labor losing its Base:
TPP swing in the Sydney area (blue towards the Coalition, red to labor):
compared to the SSM survey:
Its nice to know this realignment if happening across the world /s
The analysis this came from shows that this realignment is occuring across the board. With wealthier suburbs swinging to Labor and poorer/working class areas swinging to the Coalition.
If this keeps going on then we'll become like Israel who was a trend starter since the 1980s with the middle class ashkenazi voting for left leaning parties and working class aka: mizrahi voting for the right due to nationalism/identity being more important than economic policy.
I don't think the trend is that new in Australia either. I believe John Howard got a lot of working class voters who normally voted Labor to vote for him in the 90s and 00s (he had his own phenomenon similar to those of the Reagan Democrats I believe), what may be newer is wealthier areas being tougher for the coalition than they used to be.
