White college graduates in America’s suburbs have turned hard against Republicans in elections around the country and threaten to upend the party’s control of Congress in the 2018 midterm elections. Republican Reps. Dana Rohrabacher of Costa Mesa and Darrell Issa of Vista are two of the Democrats’ top targets for 2018. In the decades after World War II, white voters with and without college degrees voted roughly the same way in White House contests. Trump’s electoral college victory was driven by a surge of support from whites with no college degree in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. Trump does maintain support from at least some white college graduates in the suburbs.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 25, 2017 10:52 UTC