But moderates and conservatives from the nonwhite working class agree by 31 points that there are in fact just two genders. By 13 percentage points, white college liberals disagree that there are just two genders, male and female. Other issues generate much more disagreement. For example, looking at post-election data from the Democracy Fund + UCLA Nationscape survey (postelection N=53,000), there is overwhelming support for a guaranteed job policy and raising the minimum wage across the two groups. There are of course many issues on which white college grad liberals and nonwhite working class moderates and conservatives agree. To the extent issues and rhetoric that appeal mostly to college-educated white liberals are promoted, there could be serious attrition among working class nonwhites who find such issues and rhetoric unappealing. Given that Democrats are becoming more and more dependent on the white college vote -the key group that delivered their victory in 2020-while actually losing ground among nonwhite working class voters, this ideological mismatch between the two groups of Democrats could assume ever-greater importance in future elections, depending on which group has the upper hand in determining the Democratic party “brand”. Gallup data indicate that two-thirds of white college Democrats are liberal while 70 percent of black working class and two-thirds of Hispanic working class Democrats are moderate or conservative. The contrast is particularly striking between college graduate whites and working class (noncollege) nonwhites. Not so black and Hispanic Democrats who are overwhelmingly moderate or conservative. White Democrats are now a solidly liberal constituency. That liberalism has been mostly driven by increasing liberalism among white Democrats which has spiked upward 20 points since the early 2000s. A recent Gallup release confirmed that Democrats now have about as many liberals in the party as moderates or conservatives.
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