By Ronald Brownstein and Libby Isenstein
Profound demographic shifts have transformed one party but only modestly affected the other.
From Bill Clinton’s first election as president in 1992 to Hillary Rodham Clinton’s second presidential candidacy in 2015, the Democratic Party has been transformed by demographic change and political realignment, while the Republican Party has changed much more modestly.
The following charts summarize the key changes in the composition of Americans who identify with or lean toward the two parties, using results from polls by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press.
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