Finally in 2017, the demographers looked at the same relationships going back to 1968 and forward through the Trump election of 2016. They showed that “the spatial patterns of . . . [family demographics] and voting start converging in the 1990s,” with a steady and “substantial correspondence after 2000 and continuing through the latest 2016 elections. More specifically, after the turn of the century, correlations were observed between [0.83] and [0.90] for no less than 5 successive elections.”18 These
