Free Vulcan wonders:
"This is the reason I'm skeptical about the Democrat Blue Wave. How can you have a wave when you've abandoned at least a third of your own party, the people that work, have families, and are basically normal?"
I've posted this before and taken heat for doing so, but I'm going to say it again:
What you're seeing is a nascent "white identity" coalescing amongst traditional-minded Americans of Euro-heritage.
This is why white working-class folks who previously were "democrats" for so long that it was all-but ingrained into their DNA are taking a hard look around at the current democrat-communist party and wondering why they're still IN a party that not only no longer represents them, but now brands them "racists" (simply because they're white) and blames them for every ill that can be concocted up out of a cauldron of nothingness.
No, they won't admit to embracing identity politics. Indeed, a large number of them probably don't have any idea of what that even is, until it was explained to them. But I would speculate that most of them, asked why they are "switching", are going to tell you something to the effect, "the democrat party doesn't represent me/us anymore". What they mean is that the democrat-communist party now represents "others" -- others who are clearly not "like them" (although they may not casually state what characteristics aren't "like themselves").
So even though most whites may not outwardly declare that they are switching parties due to "identity", that clearly has become the driving force behind "the switchers".
It's been going on since the time Richard Nixon, with his "Southern strategy" back in 1968 (yes, I was watchin' politics even back then). It's why the post-Jim Crow south slowly but almost completely shifted from democrat to Republican (whites had no choice other than to "unite" to overcome black bloc voting). Who here complains about that come election day?
What once was a "Southern phenomenon" has gradually been spreading out to the North, East and West like kudzu.
In November 2016 some of it took hold in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin (with a little help from Ohio). It's the primary reason why Mr. Trump won. He wouldn't have made it without the "white [identity] switchers" that tipped those states to the Repulicans.
And now the democrat-communists have gone whole-Hogg nuts, with gals like Maxine Waters leading the charge, fannin' the flames and raisin' the level of rhetoric. Please explain to me how this is not going to drive even more whites out of the blue side?
And meanwhile the illegal immigration battle adds fuel to the fire. I doubt few subjects rankle the rank-and-file white guys as much as this one.
So... the lines are being drawn and the sides are being taken.
The democrat-communists know which side they're on, and it ain't "the white side" no mo'.
For too long, it's been traditional-minded Euro-Americans (Kurt Schlichter calls them "the normals") who have been blind to how "the dividing line" between the parties has been shifting under their feet. Or perhaps more subtly, how the ideologues of the democrat-communist party have been pulling the rug out from under them.
A lot of 'em just aren't gonna take it anymore.
But an important question has yet to be answered:
Where will they take the Republican party...?
