Democrats once counted on the votes of blue-collar workers, but two rival teams of consultants saw change coming. Their fight over the party’s future still echoes today. Today, Democrats typically dominate America’s wealthiest zip codes while Republicans claim the mantle of the working class. What happened?

In this WhoWhatWhy podcast, historian Timothy Shenk — author of Left Adrift: What Happened to Liberal Politics — takes us behind the scenes of this historic realignment.

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