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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.
I know a few people in tech - what you describe as "FAANG engineer" but vast majority of them never worked for FAANG specifically (though a small minority did). I would say I would be very surprised if less than 90% of them are Democrat voters. I of course can't know for sure, and I avoid talking politics at work or with work colleagues or potential colleagues, but you can see it, with some people right out of the door, with others eventually. Mostly because that's what nice, educated, open-minded, well-adjusted people in their circle do. Most of them are very smart people, IQ-wise. A lot of them are stunningly ignorant on actual policies they are voting for, and the consequences of those policies - and as far as I can see, most of them consider any negative consequences a minor bug which can be easily solved by proper regulatory policy tweaks, just as they'd fix a bug in the code. And I don't think anything short of at least full local society collapse would cause them to consider changing their vote. It's just not something that is done. I mean, they surely might vote for different Democrat candidates in Democrat primaries to select different Democrat policies, but that's as far as it'd ever go.
There's also a subgroup which calls themselves "libertarians". Some are actually libertarians and vote for LP (which is of course completely useless, politically, but points for consistency) but I'd give more than even chance that the majority still votes Democrat anyway.
Out of all tech people I know, I could name maybe a couple who I am pretty sure are pro-Trump, but most I'd say are very "orange man bad". Observing discussions in places like HN supports my assumption that it's not just my personal bubble, but it could be a wider bubble of course.
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