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What is the typical White, Male, College-educated Democrat voter like? I was surprised looking at the cross tabs for the 2024 election that this group was only 50% pro Trump.
I’m mid 20s from a blue upper middle class suburb of NYC and went to a non-elite but solid state flagship college. Between my high school friends, fraternity brothers, friends of friends, coworkers etc. I am decently well acquainted with a large number of college-educated white dudes from upper middle class suburbs, with normie interests like sports and drinking, who mostly work good to elite office jobs in large cities and IME this group is something like 80-20 pro-Trump. The new stereotype is that the elite yuppie Ivy+ MBB consultant or FAANG engineer votes democrat, but that is a tiny portion of the college educated white male demographic, and even among the 15-20 friends/acquaintances I have in big tech, medical school or high finance they are mostly pro-Trump as well.
I understand that I am in a bubble of sorts but I’d think that the group I’m describing has to make up a significant portion of the total white, male, college educated electorate and will form the bulk of the upper middle class suburbs as we get older. I’d assume in the south or Midwest this group would be even more conservative as well. Am I overestimating the size of this group? Do they just not vote? It just doesn’t match my personal experience at all that this demographic isn’t closer to the white non-college male voting pattern. It feels like there just aren’t enough very elite college grads or bohemian-type urban white dudes to outweigh the normie white male college grad.
Bubbles are surprisingly strong. I’ve never met an open Trump supporter (or equivalent local rightwing party) in real life. All the young college educated straight white men I know are at least moderately leftwing, or at least heavily dislike rightwing populists. Supporting Trump would make you an instant social pariah, and make people wonder what went wrong with you.
What are they like? That’s what I’m asking. Did they grow up in urban environments? what kind of jobs/interests do they have? Did they grow up middle class or rich or poor? I understand the bubble thing but I’m not saying I’ve never encountered a democrat white college grad, I’ve encountered plenty. I’m just saying that the cohort I’m describing is what I would think is close to the modal college educated white guy 18-29. They’re also not typically “open trump supporters”, most aren’t super into politics and would know not to discuss it in the wrong environments, but Democrats are essentially viewed as the gay/woman party and Trump is viewed as funny.
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