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Redistricting Advantage: GOP, new midterm forecast, neighborliness on the decline and so too are births, the perfect time to buy a house

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Patrick Ruffini
May 08, 2026
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No. 401 | May 8, 2026

🏭 The new politics of American business

The team at Echelon released a report this week on the voter coalitions supporting and opposing 13 key industries. You can download the full report here.

Applying our political tribes framework to views of American business, we found 7 “tribes” with distinctive belief systems that guide their support or opposition to various industries. We think these are pretty revealing about the dueling impulses within each of the major coalitions, and also about the mindset of conflicted swing groups. Here are what those tribes look like:

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