Pew has 62% white men for Trump in 2016 (32% for Clinton) and 47% of white women (45% for Clinton). Figures from August 2018.
In 2020 the figures for white men were 57% Trump, 40% Biden; for white women it was 53% Trump, 47% Biden. Figures from June 2021.
The gap between college grads and non-college grads is huge for white voters -- and non-existent for Black voters: IOW, in 2020 Black voters voted overwhelmingly Democratic (92%) regardless of education level. So if your circles, like mine, skew toward the college educated, it probably seems like most people are voting Democratic (and the Trump voters are mostly keeping quiet about it).
Thanks. I didn't believe we were that bad. My younger brother is college educated, just (BS in business but not sure what his major was.) My sister who now lives in Florida is originally from Indiana (as are my brother and myself) Like my brother, she has always voted Republican but this year has rethought her position based on all the bad things she now knows about Trump and Republicans in general. She is somewhat like a reformed smoker. She has a Masters in Occupational Rehabilitation although she has long since retired. Although raised as a Republican I've never voted for one (except for Primaries) although unable to bring myself to vote for Humphry or Nixon in '68, I voted for Pat Paulsen. My first and last stab at strategic voting. I was in the service and my only real source of political information at the time was The Smothers Brothers show on which of course Pat Paulsen appeared. Obviously voting in Indiana my protest was lost in a wave of Red. FYI, I have 5 degrees: Psychology, History, Education, Law and Computer Programming, in that order. So no wonder I don't vote Republican, eh? The industry I spent by far the most time in was IT.
1968 was a huge watershed year for me, but I wasn't old enough to vote yet. Not sure what I would have done if I had been. I was devastated by RFK's death and disgusted by what went down in Chicago, plus I was a Smothers Brothers junkie, so I might have gone for Paulsen. I was in blue Massachusetts so voting third party wasn't going to hurt Humphrey (who carried the state 63% to 33%). I did vote in 1972 (absentee as I was in college). After that debacle, I stuck a DON'T BLAME ME, I'M FROM MASSACHUSETTS sticker on my suitcase.
Those aren't *my* numbers. Last I looked, most white males voted for Trump.
I didn't realize we were quite so much in the minority..... Are the numbers from 2016 or 2020?
Pew has 62% white men for Trump in 2016 (32% for Clinton) and 47% of white women (45% for Clinton). Figures from August 2018.
In 2020 the figures for white men were 57% Trump, 40% Biden; for white women it was 53% Trump, 47% Biden. Figures from June 2021.
The gap between college grads and non-college grads is huge for white voters -- and non-existent for Black voters: IOW, in 2020 Black voters voted overwhelmingly Democratic (92%) regardless of education level. So if your circles, like mine, skew toward the college educated, it probably seems like most people are voting Democratic (and the Trump voters are mostly keeping quiet about it).
Here's the URL for the 2020 stats:
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/06/30/behind-bidens-2020-victory/
Thanks. I didn't believe we were that bad. My younger brother is college educated, just (BS in business but not sure what his major was.) My sister who now lives in Florida is originally from Indiana (as are my brother and myself) Like my brother, she has always voted Republican but this year has rethought her position based on all the bad things she now knows about Trump and Republicans in general. She is somewhat like a reformed smoker. She has a Masters in Occupational Rehabilitation although she has long since retired. Although raised as a Republican I've never voted for one (except for Primaries) although unable to bring myself to vote for Humphry or Nixon in '68, I voted for Pat Paulsen. My first and last stab at strategic voting. I was in the service and my only real source of political information at the time was The Smothers Brothers show on which of course Pat Paulsen appeared. Obviously voting in Indiana my protest was lost in a wave of Red. FYI, I have 5 degrees: Psychology, History, Education, Law and Computer Programming, in that order. So no wonder I don't vote Republican, eh? The industry I spent by far the most time in was IT.
1968 was a huge watershed year for me, but I wasn't old enough to vote yet. Not sure what I would have done if I had been. I was devastated by RFK's death and disgusted by what went down in Chicago, plus I was a Smothers Brothers junkie, so I might have gone for Paulsen. I was in blue Massachusetts so voting third party wasn't going to hurt Humphrey (who carried the state 63% to 33%). I did vote in 1972 (absentee as I was in college). After that debacle, I stuck a DON'T BLAME ME, I'M FROM MASSACHUSETTS sticker on my suitcase.