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# Is Zohran Mamdani’s Coalition Reshaping American Politics?
- URL: https://www.vitalcitynyc.org/is-zohran-mamdanis-coalition-reshaping-american-politics/
- Published: 2026-11-09T17:22:46.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-09T18:14:00.000Z
- Description: The midterm election results may signal that a deeper shift is underway.
- Author: Richard Florida
- Tags: Elections, Politics

Democrats just notched [the biggest congressional landslide in 50 years](https://www.economist.com/united-states/2026/11/05/the-democrats-have-won-the-biggest-congressional-landslide-in-50-years?ref=vitalcitynyc.org). And though every campaign had its own story, the coalition that returned Democrats to control of the House and Senate — and any number of state houses — resembled the one Zohran Mamdani assembled to win New York City’s mayoralty in 2025\. Mamdani united creative and service workers around their shared struggles to afford a decent life. The midterm results suggest that coalition has legs and is already reshaping American politics.

Some [imagine America to be “classless.”](https://www.brookings.edu/articles/classless-america-still/?ref=vitalcitynyc.org) But contemporary society is organized into three major socioeconomic classes.

For much of the 20th century, America’s largest class was the blue-collar working class, which includes factory and construction workers and people in transportation and the trades. As manufacturing employment declined, it contracted dramatically, from about half the U.S. workforce in 1950 to about a fifth today.

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