Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "A Reagan Democrat is a traditionally Democratic voter in the United States, especially a white working-class Northerner, who defected from their party to support Republican President Ronald Reagan in either or both the 1980 and 1984 elections. Many of these Democratic voters, in the expectation of something resembling a third term for the Reagan presidency, voted for Vice-President George H. W. Bush in the 1988 election, and then perhaps the 1994 'Republican Revolution'. Many Reagan Democrats were never again comfortable voting Democratic nationally, and US politics is often thought to have shifted rightward because of this, though the complex data makes this almost impossible to prove or disprove. What can be said with certainty is that since 1984, Democrats have never polled as strongly for the office of the presidency, with the probable exception of 1992."@en }
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- Reagan_Democrat abstract "A Reagan Democrat is a traditionally Democratic voter in the United States, especially a white working-class Northerner, who defected from their party to support Republican President Ronald Reagan in either or both the 1980 and 1984 elections. Many of these Democratic voters, in the expectation of something resembling a third term for the Reagan presidency, voted for Vice-President George H. W. Bush in the 1988 election, and then perhaps the 1994 'Republican Revolution'. Many Reagan Democrats were never again comfortable voting Democratic nationally, and US politics is often thought to have shifted rightward because of this, though the complex data makes this almost impossible to prove or disprove. What can be said with certainty is that since 1984, Democrats have never polled as strongly for the office of the presidency, with the probable exception of 1992.".