So if you put "people Dems could try to attract" into chunks: 1) More small-town deindustrialized whites (OH, PA, IA, maybe even beginning to make inroads in KY, WV, TN again) 2) More well-educated Panera Bread whites (GA, TX, AZ, maybe FL to some extent)
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3) White Christians who *should* be turned off by Trump's immorality (all over, but particularly relevant in the South and Midwest) 4) Non-voting minorities (again, all over but particularly relevant in the Sun Belt---but possibly crucial in WI/MI/MN/PA)
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Given that all of these in some way conflict with some segment of The Party As Is (even the last bit, given the reminder that some 20-30% of HRC voters hold explicitly racist attitudes)
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Do you pick which ones to pursue? Perhaps that's how I'd be thinking as an armchair quarterback. But I think as actual politicians you pursue them all. I guess... I think there's a role for everybody who wants to pipe up and say "come to us! care about us! Here's what we want!"
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And yeah, I guess I'm worried that, as usual, whoever wins that struggle, whiteness will win one way or another.
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