Goodbye Stanley Greenberg

Here is a letter I sent to the Times about the article 
 
I have lived in Oakland County, Michigan, for the past thirty years and have witnessed first-hand the changes Stanley Greenberg refers to. I have also been aware of the bellwether status of neighboring Macomb County, which, starting in 1972, has voted for the popular vote winner in all but two Presidential elections.  
 
Greenberg ends his column with the statement “So, good riddance, my Macomb barometer. Four years from now, I trust we will see the candidates rush from their conventions to Oakland County, to see the new America.”  
 
Why the need to trash Macomb County, after, as he puts it, “making a career of spotlighting their [Reagan Democrats’] middle-class anger and frustrations about race and Democratic politicians”? Greenberg prefers the political atmosphere in Oakland County, so does that entitle him to conclude that we are the “New America”?  
 
Stanley Greenberg seems to have forgotten what begat the “Reagan Democrats” in the first place. Remember, we’re all supposed to be under “one big tent” now. Macomb County “gets it,”, but I’m not so sure Greenberg does.

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