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Trump Voters Stand by Their Man
White working-class voters and "civil war" in Macomb County.
Persuadable?
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Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg returned to Macomb County, Michigan, last month to observe the latest twists in the tortured relationship between the Democratic Party and white working-class voters.
Greenberg has been analyzing the white working class for a long time. He made his name with a 1985 report on Reagan Democrats, an earlier wave of white working-class voters who abandoned the Democrats, in Macomb. His focus on such voters, many of whom gave ready voice to racial resentments, alienated some powerful liberal Democrats.