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What does it mean to be an American?

Where we are now

"remarkably consistent"

Voters sorted after the realignment of the 1960s and solidified after the Republican Revolution in 1994.

The New Story

Ideology and party are not synonymous.

Ideology

Does Not Equal

Partisanship

Or are they????

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Self-described ideological conservatives were very quick to respond to the treatment of liberal Trump cues, moving an average of twelve points in a liberal direction across the issues (Barber and Pope 2018, 34).

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How did we get here?

Economic issues

Defection

What's it all about, then?

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"The Obama to Trump voter was overwhelmingly a populist — liberal on economic issues, conservative on race issues" (Drutman 2017, np).

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WHY?

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If a county had high education levels, Clinton was almost certain to improve there regardless of the area’s other characteristics" (Silver 2016, np).

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Flip Side

What does it all mean??

Are there any peripheral voters left, then?

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self-placed ideology...is closer to a social identity than it is to a reasoned statement about one’s constraint or policy preferences or issue consistency (Barber and Pope 2017, 11-12).

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