Congressional districts are of basically equal population, and Democrats tend to roll up big margins in densely populated areas...it does tell us something about the geographic and cultural isolation of the core groups of the Democratic Party: gentry liberals and blacks. These were the two groups gathered together when Barack Obama had the opportunity to draw the new lines of his state Senate district after the 2000 census. He combined the heavily black South Side of Chicago with Gold Coast gentry liberals north of the Loop. Together, they provided him with an overwhelmingly Democratic voter base and with access to the upper financial and intellectual reaches of the Democratic Party — and, in short time, the presidency of the United States.
Posted on: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 02:09:00 +0000
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