On a different note, I really am very very curious what caused this shift to the right in all groups
I have done some reading both before and after. I can especially comment on the south. The black votes in Georgia. There is a very good piece here.
The reason is various for various group of people and one thing they all agreed that economy is really bad, Democratic Party and current govt broke it and Trump will fix it. This is the belief. Whether it’s true or not matters not, this is the belief and it’s a great sales pitch
Interesting timing. Just before I read your reply, I saw this on Mastodon:
One of the best first sentence I have read in recent times
“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,”