{"id":159718,"date":"2021-02-22T09:30:54","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T14:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=159718"},"modified":"2021-02-22T09:59:10","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T14:59:10","slug":"nbc-poll-shows-gop-becoming-party-of-blue-collar-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nbc-poll-shows-gop-becoming-party-of-blue-collar-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"NBC Poll Shows GOP Becoming Party Of Blue-Collar Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnbc-poll-shows-gop-becoming-party-of-blue-collar-workers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=159718&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/7E3656EC-6215-456E-882C-87010DCAD0B3_1_201_a.jpeg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/meet-the-press\/gop-rapidly-becoming-blue-collar-party-here-s-what-means-n1258468?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma\">NBC News<\/a>\u2018 \u201cMeet the Press\u201d displayed new data\u00a0Sunday that demonstrates a shift in the demographics of political parties in the United States. Data from an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/meet-the-press\/gop-rapidly-becoming-blue-collar-party-here-s-what-means-n1258468?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma\">NBC News poll<\/a> showed that more blue-collar workers might be joining the Republican Party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMeet the Press\u201d host Chuck Todd noted that \u201cboth parties are undergoing massive changes in who their voters are.\u201d According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/meet-the-press\/gop-rapidly-becoming-blue-collar-party-here-s-what-means-n1258468?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma\">NBC News<\/a>, \u201cone massive shift is coming in employment: the kinds of jobs Democrats and Republicans hold. There are signs across racial and ethnic demographic groups that Republicans are becoming the party of blue-collar Americans and the change is happening quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Over the last 10 years, the percentage of \u201cblue-collar voters\u201d who describe themselves as Republicans grew by 12 points, while at the same time, the number in that group who identify as Democrat went down eight points.<\/p>\n<p>The number of \u201cwhite-collar voters\u201d has remained mostly the same with a small increase for Democrats (one point) and a slight decrease for Republicans (one point).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/meet-the-press\/gop-rapidly-becoming-blue-collar-party-here-s-what-means-n1258468?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma\">NBC News<\/a> reports that this might lead to a shift in policy proposals of the GOP. \u201cSome signs of what this change could mean became visible just after the election when Republican voters aligned with former President Donald Trump called for larger Covid-19 relief payments from the government. A larger cash payout is not a policy choice one would normally associate with Republicans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The number of white blue-collar workers increased 12 points over the past 10 years, but the Republican Party also saw an increase in minority blue-collar workers aligning with them, as well.<\/p>\n<p>The GOP saw a 13-point increase in Hispanic blue collar workers, which is slightly higher than the white blue-collar worker numbers. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/meet-the-press\/gop-rapidly-becoming-blue-collar-party-here-s-what-means-n1258468?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma\">NBC<\/a>, \u201cFor years the assumption has been that the Democrats had an inside track to winning the Hispanic vote, but maybe that\u2019s less true than had been believed, especially among blue-collar Hispanics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Black blue-collar workers also increased from five percent to 12 percent over the last 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, each of the different groups discussed in the poll \u2014 white, Hispanic, and black \u2014 all had increases within the GOP from 2010 to 2016, as well. The more significant jumps, however, came between 2016 and 2020.<\/p>\n<p>From 2010 to 2016, the Hispanic blue-collar voters aligned with the GOP grew one percent. The black blue-collar voters grew four percent \u00a0and the white blue-collar voter numbers went up two percentage points. The numbers might seem small, but they are significant enough to show an increasing trend that continued from 2016 to 2020 instead of declining or remaining the same.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/meet-the-press\/gop-rapidly-becoming-blue-collar-party-here-s-what-means-n1258468?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma\">NBC News,<\/a> these data points seem to show that the GOP \u201cis increasingly reliant on blue-collar voters as a key, if not the key, component of its coalition.\u201d This could reportedly lead to a change in policy proposals as the GOP moves to speak to these voters.<\/p>\n<p>In describing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/meet-the-press\/video\/how-the-senate-map-shift-helped-trump-win-acquittal-101013573923\">data<\/a>, Chuck Todd said, \u201cThe two parties are trading places to a certain extent. As Democrats make gains in traditionally Republican suburbs, Republicans are picking off blue-collar voters who used to call themselves \u2018Democrats.&#8217;\u201d The host added, \u201cIncreasingly, the current Republican Party is looking more and more like the Democratic Party of the mid-20th century. Think \u201950s and \u201960s.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span>member<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBC News\u2018 \u201cMeet the Press\u201d displayed new data\u00a0Sunday that demonstrates a shift in the demographics of political parties in the United States. 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