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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.
You're experiencing a bubble effect. I'm an elder millennial, so my peers are mostly late 30s, but because I play ultimate Frisbee which is a college team sport, a lot of the people I hang out with are white males in their 20s as well. I know a grand total of one confirmed Trump voter among them, including myself (I'm white-adjacent enough to count, in terms of how vast swathes of society pre-judge me), and he will only mention it to me when we're the only ones hanging out or if we're with his friends who are barely my acquantiances. Now, I don't know the precise voting habits of every one of my white male acquaintances, but given just how ubiquitous it is to hear some random jab about Trump followed by the equivalent of "aye" or applause in any social situation, and how much pushback I receive when I try to call out dishonest or manipulative framing of Trump's misdeeds, I'd wager that the number of white males I know who even consider it virtuous to treat Trump honestly, much less supports him, is vanishingly small.
I was shocked by the 50% figure as obscenely high, but surely you mean White Male College educated, but not Democrat? If 1 out of every 2 White Male College educated DEMOCRATS support Trump, this would be quite the coup, almost literally.
I think white and male skews pro-Trump, but college skews heavily anti-Trump, and it lands somewhere around 50%. It speaks to the power of ideas over the power of race or sex that college is able to be equal and opposite those other forces, which also speaks to the utter idiocy of judging the value of words by the speaker's race or sex rather than the ideas they're expressing.
Yes that was a typo, I mean white male college-educated generally. Are the ultimate frisbee guys primarily in tech? Do they come from elite colleges? What part of the country is this in? Do they have very stereotypical normie male interests like watching football and drinking beer? I don’t know if I’ve ever heard some sort of random anti-trump redditor quip from a straight gentile white dude under 30 who wasn’t visibly “nerdy” (for lack of a better term) or an artsy/hipster type.
This is Boston area, and the ultimate Frisbee guys are primarily nerdy college educated professionals in some field, including tech. Elite colleges don't seem any more overrepresented in this group than any other group of college grads; I can only name one ultimate Frisbee guy I know who went to one: Columbia.
Now, they do enjoy drinking beer and watching sports, but I'd say not in a stereotypical male way. More like a stereotypical nerdy yuppie way, only as an outside social event at a bar, and people basically NEVER do things like casually ask each other, "Hey what'd you think of the game last night?" or whatever. We drink Bud Light Lime ironically at tournaments, but otherwise, it'd be very rare for one of us to be seen drinking a beer that's not some microbrew or less popular import or some quintuple IPA abomination.
A lot of them, you'd clock as nerds, some of them as hipsters, and very few as jocks. Though I'd say, due to the nature of a physically taxing sport like ultimate, the overt nerdiness level is pretty low.
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