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Think it’s cope to say the right lacks hot girls. We’ve got Miami and all the sorority girls as reliable voters. And the middle of the road hotties who vote Dem swap to GOP once they’re pregnant. Females vote Dem more but it’s fairly even with the hotter ones and we don’t one the tatted up chicks.
Are “all the sorority girls” reliable GOP voters?
I bet a big chunk of sorority girls are overrepresented as GOP voters, give or take 5 years, compared to the rest of their demographic. A majority of sorority girls are in traditional Panhellenic greek culture, not the Not That Kind of Sorority I'm sure you find at NYU or USC. I wouldn't discount greek life as one of the few institutional signals young women get exposed to that it's okay or even socially beneficial to enjoy traditional things.
Say you go to public school in Austin, TX your whole life. Your family might be culturally conservative or even Christian churchgoers, but rushing at Texas A&M might be the first time your peers value things like tradition and encourage you to invest in institutional values. You learn about the importance of doing the things the way they've been done. Exposing young women to a traditional institution is probably an important avenue for conservatives to reach status conscious, conformist women. I don't think that should be underestimated, although planning an electoral future on SEC rush TikToks probably goes too far.
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Yes, what the GOP has is a single woman deficit, married women vote about like their husbands. But you kinda knew that’s what 2rafa meant, didn’t you? The based ewhore got her followers by seeming sexually available, up until she had a kid with Elon musk.
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