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Oct 14Liked by Andrew Gawthorpe

Hasn’t the trend of non-white voters voting more like white voters been ongoing for a while now? That’s something you’d expect to see as they become more integrated. I think being woke is something the Democrats should totally avoid, and distance themselves from. The fact that they are associated with wokeness has been damaging. That’s why the Trump campaign has tried to link Harris to woke policies: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-goes-harris-anti-trans-ads-football-games-rcna174354

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Right, I'm not saying they should be more "woke", I agree about that - but I'm just saying that talking about e.g. why mass deportation is bad is not actually "woke" and is something that they should be doing.

The trends among African-Amercans/Hispanics long term are complicated and I think they have to be looked at separately. With African-Americans there's not really a clear trend but a lot of hand-wringing about this election - we'll wait and see. But there does seem to be a generational thing where younger African-Americans are not longer so fanatically loyal to Dems, which is a lot to do with fading memories of the civil rights struggle. With Hispanics, yeah, I think more integration is part of it, but also it's happened too suddenly to be just a story about that. In 2020 it was a lot to do with covid policies (big Hispanic support for "reopening the economy", being less risk-averse re covid), educational polarization (70% of Hispanic voters are non-college and non-college voters are preferring the GOP much more, so acting more like white voters as you say) and also ideology not overriding race so much anymore (conservative Hispanics voted GOP rather than race overriding their ideology). And with all of those things, being more "woke" certainly wouldn't help - so agree the Dems shouldn't do this.

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