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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.
Probably working for the government (or an NGO), or maybe a non-tech role as an employee in a Big Corp. Of the white male lawyers I know, the vast majority are probably Dem voters for federal elections, even the prosecutors. The non-Dems would likely be the ones who have their own firms and get murdered by taxes (probably lots of minority male attorneys with their own firms who voted for Trump). These are not "elite" lawyers. They went to state schools, have unremarkable non-prestigious jobs, etc.
Source: I'm a white male lawyer in my 40s. I know one loud and proud Trump-supporting white male lawyer. The rest are prone to making anti-Trump commenters for the slightest reason, even just small talk about the weather.
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