"From coast to coast, voters delivered decisive victories that political analysts quickly dubbed a 'blue wave.'
But beneath the headlines and hashtags lies a deeper story about race, gender, and education—about who showed up, who shifted, and what these patterns say about the future of democracy in America."
~ Jemar Tisby
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The Blue Wave and the Racial Color Line
Race, Gender, Education, and the Future of DemocracyJemar Tisby, PhD (Footnotes by Jemar Tisby)
William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"The racial divide runs parallel to an educational one—especially among white voters. White men without college degrees supported the Republican candidate by a staggering 71%, while even college-educated white men gave her a majority at 52%. White women, however, split more evenly.
Just over half (54%) voted for the Democrat, and that number jumped to 65% among white women with graduate degrees."
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"Black people along with majorities of all people of color helped push the blue wave.
Together, these coalitions helped turn the tide, not just for a party, but for a vision of a pluralistic, multiracial democracy."
Jemar Tisby offers a graph breaking down votes in the Virginia governor's election by gender and ethnicity (see below).
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"Dem gains in this week's elections erased the inroads Trump made with non-white, young, and low-income voters in 2024. In fact, the R-to-D shift from 24 to 25 is double Trump's gains from 20-24. Claims of a GOP political realignment have been highly exaggerated."
~ G. Elliott Morris
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"Just one year into the Trump presidency, there are signs that everyday Americans are stepping up to say that Trump’s lawlessness, chaos, cruelty, and corruption are not in fact what they want in a president."
~ Robert P. Jones
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The Most Important 2025 Election Result: Evidence that an Authoritarian Future is Not Inevitable
Robert P. Jones (The Convocation)William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"In Virginia, for example, while 80% of white evangelicals continued to vote Republican, 7% of 2024 Trump voters flipped and supported the democratic candidate for governor, Abigail Spanberger. The exit poll breaks by race and gender showed that majorities of every subgroup voted for Spanberger except white men."
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