College-educated whites- social issues (user search)
       |           

Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
Did you miss your activation email?
May 22, 2024, 09:29:09 PM
News: Election Simulator 2.0 Released. Senate/Gubernatorial maps, proportional electoral votes, and more - Read more

  Talk Elections
  General Politics
  Political Geography & Demographics (Moderators: muon2, 100% pro-life no matter what)
  College-educated whites- social issues (search mode)
Pages: [1]
Author Topic: College-educated whites- social issues  (Read 1054 times)
Stranger in a strange land
strangeland
Atlas Icon
*****
Posts: 10,196
United States


« on: October 07, 2019, 10:18:46 AM »

Where I live, it's much more conservative than other places because of religiosity, but I would say that the bigger issue nationally for the GOP is that they are not culturally conservative, not that they are not socially conservative.  That's especially evident in that many suburbs had no problem with social conservatism from the GOP for decades, but flipped en masse when the GOP started to focus on cultural conservatism.

What do you mean by culturally vs. socially conservative?  Attitudes on e.g. gay rights have shifted seismically in the college+ demographic over the past 15 years and college+ as a whole appears to lean pro-choice vs. non-college.  Some of this is Millennials growing up and moving to the suburbs, but it also looks like a lot of people really changed their minds.   

The one major issue on which college+ suburbs still strike me as socially conservative is monogamy/waiting until marriage to have kids, and Democrats are probably better positioned to appeal to suburban voters on those issues post-Trump and MeToo.

Nearly everyone over 35 who supports gay marriage has changed their mind on the issue at some point, so there's that to consider.
Logged
Pages: [1]  
Jump to:  


Login with username, password and session length

Terms of Service - DMCA Agent and Policy - Privacy Policy and Cookies

Powered by SMF 1.1.21 | SMF © 2015, Simple Machines

Page created in 0.016 seconds with 10 queries.