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Education is incredibly strongly correlated with not voting republican.
by vkou 3y ago
Education is incredibly strongly correlated with not voting republican.
- finite_depth 3y agoAlthough at this point that might be more class/intelligence signalling than any principled belief in social welfare. You don't have to support the poor to realize that it's a bad idea to support a mad death cult full of people who are toxic to your career.
- ffhhttt 3y agoWhite college graduates are almost evenly split between the parties..
- vkou 3y agoAnd what does the white highschool dropout split look like? Obama lost the white non-college educated vote by 26 points to Romney, by the way.
- ffhhttt 3y ago> Obama lost the white non-college educated vote by 26 points to Romney, by the way. I’m sorry what?? It was the complete opposite. Obama won the “high-school dropout” vote overwhelmingly. Had narrow majority amongst those who graduated and actually lost college graduate vote to Romney by 4%… Romney also won every income bracket above 50k Less educated people started voting for the Republicans in 2016 but not quite to the extent they voted for Obama.
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- ffhhttt 3y agoIn 2016 the split between college educated voters was 49-45 and the majority of white college graduates voted for Trump. Some college educated white voters shifted to the Democrats in 2020 so the gap was a bit wider so I wouldn’t say “incredibly” unless you think 3% is incredible.. It’s a different matter for postgraduates though (62-37% in 2020)