>I partly agree. (Qualification: though I voted for Democrats from 1952
>through 1964, I *now* don't think they've run a candidate worth
>voting for, at any time.) But the point of the factoid has to do not with
>the reality of the Democratic Party but with its "image," which Reed
>(and I) would argue these voters are rejecting -- an "image" of
>being progressive in respect to race and gender.
On the other hand they may associate the demos with labor, hence their diss!
Martin