Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Opinion White college grads are Democrats’ new firewall. Will they hold in 2024?
Washington Compost ^ | August 21, 2021 | Ruy Teixeira

Posted on 08/22/2023 11:02:12 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA

It’s well-established that Democrats have been doing better with White college graduates, even as they have been slipping with non-White and working-class voters. Between the 2012 and 2020 elections — two elections with very similar popular-vote margins — Democrats’ advantage among White college graduates improved by 16 points, while declining by 19 points among non-White working-class voters who didn’t graduate college.

Moreover, if you look at the state-level voting patterns from 2020, it was White college graduates, in an election that featured relative underperformance among non-White voters, that put Joe Biden over the top in the pivotal states of Wisconsin, Arizona and Georgia. White college graduates were the Democrats’ firewall in 2020.

But this group is not a lock for Biden. Start with this fact: Most White college graduates are not liberal; this is true only of White college Democrats, who have indeed become much more liberal over time.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: college; whites

1 posted on 08/22/2023 11:02:12 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: ConservativeInPA

So sick of the racist crpp.


2 posted on 08/22/2023 11:06:53 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ConservativeInPA

Self hating white exist all over America, but the West Coast & New England states are their bastions.


3 posted on 08/22/2023 11:10:58 AM PDT by unclebankster ( Globalism is the last refuge of scoundrel)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ConservativeInPA

It should read that the white college grads with worthless degrees are the Dim strongholds. Engineer heavy Huntsville, AL isn’t a Dim stronghold.


4 posted on 08/22/2023 11:12:37 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: BenLurkin

What’s racist about this article? It clearly states what we all know - that young, white college graduates are solidly in the tank for the Democrats. I often say our biggest electoral problem right now is the white women under 40 demographic.

I was actually surprised by this article that makes the college grads seem a little less progressive than I would have thought. Not sure I believe that part.


5 posted on 08/22/2023 11:15:30 AM PDT by Codeflier (Don't worry....be happy)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: ConservativeInPA

The number one problem in America is the white liberal.

Without the white liberal, the democrat party is toast because they’re the glue......the financial and intellectual glue that keeps the “hodge podge” democrat coalition together.


6 posted on 08/22/2023 11:18:32 AM PDT by unclebankster ( Globalism is the last refuge of scoundrel)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Codeflier

It’s racist on its face and the racism is even in the headline. The creeps at the Post are obsessed with skin color.


7 posted on 08/22/2023 11:18:53 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: Tell It Right
Engineer heavy Huntsville, AL isn’t a Dim stronghold.

That’s my observation as well. I did some consulting work at NASA years ago. It was a pretty decent gig except it was in the middle of summer. Huntsville seems like a really decent place.

8 posted on 08/22/2023 11:20:25 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA (The Delay Trump’s trial, delay. Elect Trump President. Trump pardons himself. )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: BenLurkin

In this case I see nothing factually incorrect about the gist of this article, but I agree we shouldn’t even be thinking in terms of race - it’s a phenotypical expression like hair color, or eye color etc. However, we know that the left is obsessed with keeping alive primitive tribal divisions for voting reasons.

Perhaps you meant you were tired of this racial crap.


9 posted on 08/22/2023 11:24:31 AM PDT by Codeflier (Don't worry....be happy)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: ConservativeInPA

Lots of stupid white people to afraid to go against the prevailing winds. To scared to be called (insert favorite slur here)


10 posted on 08/22/2023 11:29:55 AM PDT by BigFreakinToad (Biden whispered "Don't Jump")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ConservativeInPA

Now we know why Obama made student loans a government monopoly under Obamacare. Biden’s massive student loan forgiveness is a blatant taxpayer paid vote buying scheme. Despicable.


11 posted on 08/22/2023 11:29:59 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ConservativeInPA

If kids that age can’t use their phone to vote, most won’t be troubled to vote at all.


12 posted on 08/22/2023 11:45:47 AM PDT by alancarp (George Orwell was an optimist.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ConservativeInPA

DemocRats, the party of blue collar workers everywhere!

Now tht they sent all those blue collar jobs to China and Mexico, I guess they need to find different supporters.


13 posted on 08/22/2023 11:52:21 AM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ConservativeInPA

Student loan deadbeats.


14 posted on 08/22/2023 12:16:50 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("Say anything you like. Just don't say anything you don't like." - Old communist proverb.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: alancarp

But someone will Ballot Harvest for them


15 posted on 08/22/2023 1:40:29 PM PDT by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: unclebankster

.


16 posted on 08/22/2023 2:08:13 PM PDT by sauropod (I will stand for truth even if I stand alone.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson