After Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016, pundits struggling to explain the election results came up with a unified theory: it was the support of the working class. Republican leaders later said as much; in 2021, a widely publicized memo discussed how to cement the GOP’s status as the “working class party,” calling it a gift from Trump.

In fact, the evolution of the GOP to be the champion of the working class predates Trump, but there’s no disputing the fact that the Republican Party has been changing, just as the Democratic Party has.

And a new poll conducted by HarrisX for Deseret News shows exactly how much the Democratic Party has changed: Once proudly the representative of the working man and woman, Democrats are now, by a notable margin, the party of choice of the upper class.