There's a lot of discourse the past couple days about how Democrats can't expect to win when they abandoned the working class. As someone who has actually paid attention to this campaign and the state of the US the past 10 years, I find this claim suspect at best. An answer I saw in a thread refuting this claim is that the working class fled the party en masse, even after the success of the New Deal, FDR's wartime economy, and the post war boom because Democrats (northern) embraced the Civil Rights movement in order to be less explicitly racist in their pro-labour policies. Is this accurate? Or is is more recent and the result of Clinton's globalism in the 90s?