Democrats have largely lost the working-class voters

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One factor with a startlingly strong record of predicting whether a state voted Trump or Harris: the percentage of their population that graduated college.

America has split, and flipped, by education levels. Democrats have largely lost the working-class voters who elected Barack Obama, and college-educated professionals are shifting away from the Republican Party.

Now those with degrees overwhelmingly back Dems, and those without make up most of the red base.

College graduates made up 43% of the electorate, and 55% voted for Vice President Harris, per exit polls.

56% of voters without degrees voted for President-elect Trump.
Around 37% of Americans over the age of 25 have a bachelor’s degree or higher, according to Census data.

The states below that level are almost all reliably red, and the states above it are almost all reliably blue.

And several of the states that hover right around the middle are closely watched battlegrounds.
Hover over the dots in the chart for more information about each state.

As Democrats dive into what went wrong for them this cycle, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), the leading progressive voice in Congress, delivered a searing review of the Party.

“It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them,” he said in a statement.

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