Wish we could get a handle on why Trump’s approval is negative in Midwestern states.
 

Replies: @MBlanc46

Wish we could get handle on why Trump’s approval is negative in Midwestern states.
 

Replies: @iffen, @MBlanc46, @SBaker

This is the problem with “Managed Decline”. A sophisticated (yes, yes, I know) voter appreciates that a lack of reduction in immigration is actually a step forward because the alternative was a hyperbolic curve, but how do you explain it to the small town working man who’s daughter is now dating a Mexican, an issue that didn’t even exist ten years ago in his small town?

You're confusing the tropes.

The black trope is about "leaving the Dem plantation" and "Dems are the real racists". It's unimaginably patronizing, assuming that blacks aren't rational adults.

The "natural conservative" trope is usually applied to Hispanics, as to blame immigration restrictionists for Hispanics voting Dem. Some legacy Blue Dog Hispanic Dem Congressmen made hay off this, but these days only one Henry Cuellar of Texas remains.

"Natural conservative" also hedges towards (Asian) immigrants, but most of them aren't Christian, so it isn't the traditional values of our civilization they are conserving. It mostly applies to their stronger nuclear and extended families, but again this only indicates "personal conservatism".

The only social issue it holds on is same-sex marriage, which is one conservatives in general have surrendered on anyway.

Maybe, but they haven't voted yet--and a lot of people still aren't paying attention.

He did not say people vote their race, but that they vote in accordance with the interest of their race and religion. That is something different.

Mr. Lee: Why should I be against democracy? The British came here, never gave me democracy, except when they were about to leave. But I cannot run my system based on their rules. I have to amend it to fit my people's position. In multiracial societies, you don't vote in accordance with your economic interests and social interests, you vote in accordance with race and religion.