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Beyond the weird racist screed by limelicker, there is actually polling and studies that have been done on why the minority vote has shifted. Well shifted isn't the best word as there aren't many people shifting conservative, it's more that those who voted Democrat are just not voting at the same level which skews the number toward Republicans.
But the gist of the studies are that older minority voters have been and still are incredibly loyal to Democrats. They grew up in the Civil Rights Era and saw Democrats do things for them. They saw politicians sacrifice their own political futures and even lives for them.
Democrats have just assumed that would carry on forever. But young voters have different priorities than just civil rights. There are concerns about the economy, policing, health care, housing, etc.
Now the current position of the Democratic Party is to tell those people to shut up and vote or you'll get something worse (the sentiment from many in this thread). A sort of gun to your head approach to keeping those voters in line. But that's not working with younger voters anymore and I don't think the party is prepared for it.
You can also look at the opposite approach by someone like Whitmer. She made a huge effort to fix the infrastructure and removing lead water pipes in a number of communities. She expanded health care, school lunch programs, and day care assistance. Rebuilt a ton of dying roads, got auto insurers to issue refund checks, and increased tax credits to families. She won the state of Michigan by 11% in a midterm year.
Basically I think Democrats should act more like Whitmer. Listen to the concerns and do something about it. Not the current approach of demanding subservience or else. We'll see which approach works in November.
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