Welcome back to the Ten Blocks podcast. This is Brian Anderson, the editor of City

Journal. Joining me on the show today is

Zach Goldberg. He's a Paulson policy analyst at the Manhattan Institute and recently earned his

PhD in political science from Georgia State University. He's the author of a major new research

report entitled The Rise of College Educated Democrats that looks at the

consequences of demographic change within the Democratic Coalition. Zach, welcome.

Brian, great to be here. Thanks for having me on. American politics has changed considerably

since really the turn of the millennium, the beginning of the century.

We've come a long way from the old stereotypes of the two parties when the Democratic Party was

considered the party of the common person, and the GOP was the home of the wealthy and well-educated.

Now, your report takes a close look at one of those transformations.

The Democratic Party, you show, has become a party of educated white elites and non-college-educated

racial minorities.

Yet its coalition of voters is on the cusp of being majority non-white. I wonder if there

are tensions within those trends as you present them. Yeah, as you eloquently summarized

until roughly, well, even roughly until 2016, the largest constituencies within the Democratic Party or the majority constituencies, the largest majority was non-college educated whites and non-college educated non-whites.

And like you probably, I grew up.

I mean, I guess I'm not that old, but I was old enough to live through the 90s.

And I remember associating the Republican Party with the wealthy, the educated, the elites.

And for decades, you know, wealth, income and education was positively associated with Republican self-identification.

Now, what's changed over time and which is causing tension is that the two parties started adopting divergence.

I'm kind of oversimplifying it here, but just in broad brush, the two parties started adopting

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