Neither party really represents its members right now, a better model is progressive - left - center - right - reactionary where currently the democrats span

Neither party really represents its members right now, a better model is progressive - left - center - right - reactionary where currently the democrats span left to center and republicans span center to left, liberal covers progressive to center and conservative right to reactionary. Centrists tend to be more conservative about issues like immigration- often, they want there to be immigration of highly skilled workers at controlled rates, but very small rates of "refugee" immigration. I believe this explains the poll observations in the article.