They’ve become the party whose base ranges from the urban (cosmopolitan) to the suburban now instead of the previous urban (ethnic workers and people of color)

They’ve become the party whose base ranges from the urban (cosmopolitan) to the suburban now instead of the previous urban (ethnic workers and people of color) and rural. Even as recently as 2008 Democrats were competitive in flyover country and Obama won a remarkable number of rural counties. But now politics has become polarized more on the educational axis and less on race or class than it was previously (but it still is, and it’s why black men with the same educational attainment as white men vote Democrat by 65+ point margins even if I used to be 80 point margins)