An Election Map that Asks “What if Only Educated People Voted?” and a Follow-up Question
On Twitter, Basil (of “firebombing a walmart” fame) shows a couple of best-guesses at a couple of maps.
Here’s the best guess for “What if only people with a Bachelor’s or better voted?”
Here’s the best guess for “What if only people with Trade School or a Bachelor’s (or better) voted?”
Tracing Woodgrains shows us a map that tracks both the Education share gap and the Income share gap in 1996 versus the path the vote took from 2012 to 2016 to 2020 to 2024.
I don’t like how it skips over 2000-2008 but… look at that: 1996 and 2024 have swapped. In 1996, the Dems won low education/low income and Republicans won high education/high income and, in 2024, it’s the other way around.
He asks a very, very important question: if the Democrats are the party of the elites and people don’t trust the elites, what could change to make “party of the elites” trustworthy and competitive?
(Featured image is Basil’s original map.)
The big success of the US right over the last decade or so, helped by a cadre of centrists, is convincing a lot of people that the Democratic Party is whoever you think is the most radical, most annoying person on the internet. Therefore, voting Republican is a vote against them.- Nicholas Grossman.
The definition of elite in United States politics has been completely twisted beyond comprehension. Somehow the richest people in the world: Musk, Bezos, Zuckerbeg, Horowitz, Andersen, Thiel, Sacks, and other billionaires who bankrolled Trump are not elite. People with millions of dollars in wealth from owning car dealerships or paving contractor businesses or working in finance are not elite. The Winklevoss Crypto Twins are not elite despite attending the Greenwich County Day School, Brunswick School, and Harvard University.
But an adjunct professor at a community college who uses the term Latinx is one of the worst people in the world.
Great job at falling for propaganda people!Report
The difference between “educated” and “credentialed” is an important one, I think.Report