Why are white women trending more Republican lately?

[Suburbia]

Especially in the 21st century. According to the 2016 presidential election exit polls, 52% of white women voted for Republican Donald Trump and Mike Pence.


In the 2017 Virginia gubernatorial election, Republican Ed Gillespie won 51% of white women despite losing to Democrat Ralph Northam.



http://www.cnn.com/election/results/exit-polls

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/roy-moore-s-white-female-voters-are-part-long-history-ncna827976

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2017-election/VA

Why are white women trending more Republican lately in some parts of America? Has it always been so?
A lot of white female liberals are upset that their fellow white women "betrayed" them and voted Republican/conservative.

Are white women like Taylor Swift, Kate Upton, etc. "allies" or "enemies" to people of color, and WOC (women of color)?

[America's Sweetheart ❤/𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕭𝖔𝖔𝖙𝖞 𝖂𝖆𝖗𝖗𝖎𝖔𝖗]

Could it simply be that white people in general are trending Republican?


also, asking if rich white female celebrities are allies or enemies to WOC is a bit dumb.

[Bismarck]

Don’t white women vote GOP in every election? I don’t think this is a new phenomenon.

[TDAS04]

White people in general vote overwhelmingly Republican (and increasingly so) and the gender gap has never been nearly as big as the racial gap when it comes to voting.

[Mr. Morden]

The exit polls have Romney beating Obama among white women by 14 points, while Trump only won them by 9 points.  So they trended Democratic in 2016, not Republican.

[Suburbia]

Could it simply be that white people in general are trending Republican?


also, asking if rich white female celebrities are allies or enemies to WOC is a bit dumb.

Why? Some people want to know if they are allies or not. All you hear on Vogue, Teen Vogue, social media, Twitter/Tweeter/Tweetface (as Patriots head coach Bill Belichick calls it, is that "Swift voted Republican, Upton is a privileged white girl, etc.

These generalizations have effect.

[Suburbia]

The exit polls have Romney beating Obama among white women by 14 points, while Trump only won them by 9 points.  So they trended Democratic in 2016, not Republican.

If that is the case, why all the uproar over "They voted for Trump over Hillary!!"

[Nyvin]

There is no "trend" of white women being more Republican,  they've always voted Republican.

[Frozen Sky Ever Why]

Northam's 48% of VA white women was huge. Only Warner in 2008 has reached those levels in recent times, so this evidence is misleading.

[All Along The Watchtower]

Are they?

[Tekken_Guy]

They aren't. It's older and non-college white women that have stuck with the GOP. Millennials and college-educated white women are very much trending leftward.

[Tartarus Sauce]

They aren't. It's older and non-college white women that have stuck with the GOP. Millennials and college-educated white women are very much trending leftward.

[Statilius the Epicurean]

White women are a traditionally Republican demographic. They almost single-handedly elected Eisenhower.