Oklahoma City’s population is becoming younger and more diverse, a fact that helped propel a Democrat, Kendra Horn, to victory in a traditionally Republican House district. But the city’s changing demographics are only one part of the story. Emma Cott, New York Times Read more »
The Suburbs Are Changing. But Not in All the Ways Liberals Hope.
… Election outcomes in America have become increasingly correlated with population density, a pattern that also appears in other industrialized countries. Rural areas are now reliably Republican, urban areas overwhelmingly Democratic. The suburbs are lodged in between, with many economically conservative but socially liberal voters who have a foot in […] Read more »
‘Never Trump’ Republicans went Democrat in 2018. Are they gone for good?
Kristin Olsen, who until 2016 led the Republican caucus in California’s state assembly, surveyed the wreckage of the recent midterms in her state and came to a bitter conclusion: “The Grand Old Party is dead,” she wrote in an op-ed. Olsen, 44, told NBC News that Republicans had already struggled […] Read more »
Swinging Suburban Women
For a host of reasons, this was a Year of the Woman in American life. There was an all-time record 234 women running for Congress, 182 Democratic women and 52 Republican women. There will be 88 new Members in the House of Representatives, 35 of them are women. More women […] Read more »
Democrats sweep Reagan Country in California
It was where “good Republicans go to die,” Ronald Reagan often quipped. Now, with the final ballots counted, Democrats have achieved a total takeover of congressional seats in the one-time Republican bastion of Orange County. Across the country on Election Day, Democrats shifted the balance of power in the US […] Read more »
In suburban South, Democrats break into Republican strongholds
Democrats may call Tuesday’s election a wave, but look closer and you’ll see the latest evidence of a longer-term shift in the suburban vote away from the Republican Party. This metropolitan realignment was so powerful this year that its impacts were felt in places that until now had largely been […] Read more »