Are the Midwest and the Northeast slowly slipping away from the Democrats?

[Technocracy Timmy]

The Midwest is completely gone. It's time for Democrats to form a coalition of upper class voters by being fiscally conservative, use liberal social issues to win over latte liberals, and obviously minorities will always vote in lockstep to stop the racist republicans so we can just take them for granted.

It'll be so beautiful. All our billionaire buddies will love what we have created.

[Technocracy Timmy]

The Midwest is completely gone. It's time for Democrats to form a coalition of upper class voters by being fiscally conservative, use liberal social issues to win over latte liberals, and obviously minorities will always vote in lockstep to stop the racist republicans so we can just take them for granted.

It'll be so beautiful. All our billionaire buddies will love what we have created.

No!

Democrats need to accept the Northeast is a lost cause. Democrats must unite in a coalition of populism, both fiscally and socially. With white lower class voters and populist minorities, we can create an authoritarian populi- people's paradise! I know it sounds like it will destroy the economy, but ending free trade, hiking red tape and taxes, universal healthcare, free college, and trillions of dollars in infrastructure spending will CREATE JOBS, LOWER UNEMPLOYMENT, MAKE PRICES BETTER, AND LOWER INFLATION!!!

Gross. Go vote for some Trumpism style nationalism if you want THAT kind of agenda.

I'll be here in my new yacht (courtesy of donating to the NEW AND IMPROVED sensible Democratic Party) smelling my own farts and reading Vox. Be gone pleb. You sound like a racist if I do say so myself.

[Technocracy Timmy]

Illinois trended even more D, Sanders in the primary and Johnson did a lot towards Minnesota, NH remained D despite the rest of its history. Massachusetts went more D too.

What's next, The Southwest is a lost cause for Republicans?

It is, hadn't you heard?  The Southwest and Sunbelt include areas now worthy of liberals' vacation weeks PLUS some people there have college degrees, so they HAVE to be trending D at a rapid rate.

Don't forget all those affluent white suburbs which have gone Republican again and again, but they'll vote Democrat eventually! Any day now!

That happened last year.

Not really.  Some did, but Trump won the suburban vote overall and his vote share increased DIRECTLY with a higher income.  Literally a direct correlation.

And even if it did, one trend doesn't override long term trends.

Every Democratic President from Obama all the way back to FDR won by forming a coalition of religious, ethnic, racial, etc. minorities and working class whites.

[Technocracy Timmy]

The Midwest is completely gone. It's time for Democrats to form a coalition of upper class voters by being fiscally conservative, use liberal social issues to win over latte liberals, and obviously minorities will always vote in lockstep to stop the racist republicans so we can just take them for granted.

It'll be so beautiful. All our billionaire buddies will love what we have created.

Thomas Frank called this a "criminally stupid strategy" on the part of the Bill Clinton era.  Hillary proved Thomas Frank right, did she not?

Yes