Who Makes Up the Democratic Party Coalition?

Marc Andreessen says the Democratic Party is the top and the bottom versus the middle. The top is the upper middle class coastal elites: high net worth, high income people in knowledge jobs, including professor, reporter, programmer, database expert, author, lawyer, accountant, and banker, who went to top schools and hold elite degrees. He counts himself in that group. The bottom is the clientele underclass, called the rainbow coalition: minority groups such as low-income African-Americans, low-income Latinos, and recent immigrants.

Republicans in the current era are the middle class and lower middle class, people without fancy degrees who do the work that keeps the country running. The range runs from the small business owner and the restaurateur to truck drivers, farmers, garbage men, and the janitor: nine-to-five work in a small business or a physical job, real labor with calluses on the hands. Republicans concentrate in the center and the south, where the real economy sits. Democrats concentrate in New York and California and on the coast, where symbolic, creative, intellectual jobs sit.

Liberalism and progressivism spoke for the working man 100 years ago. A complete reorientation has since separated the working man from the older alignment. In the most recent election, union leadership for the most part still endorsed Kamala, but the rank and file voted majority for Trump in a lot of cases. The Teamsters voted 70% for Trump.