WV exit poll 1992

[Frozen Sky Ever Why]

White Women: Clinton 43% Bush 36% Perot 21%
White Men: Clinton 53% Bush 34% Perot 12%

Why were men so much more likely to vote for Clinton? Was it coal miners, unions, ect?

[Intell]

Unions.

[libertpaulian]

WWC (which includes coal miners and unions), plus they viewed Clinton as a good ole Southern boy just like them.

[warm istanbul]

because that exit poll was likely bs based on tiny numbers. Why would women have been so much more likely to vote for Perot even though everywhere else in the country he was more popular with men?

[VPH]

because that exit poll was likely bs based on tiny numbers. Why would women have been so much more likely to vote for Perot even though everywhere else in the country he was more popular with men?

The kind of people who voted for Perot actually differed quite a bit from region to region. I skimmed a book on his campaign's results and found the regional variation interesting.

[Sumner 1868]

KY had similar exit poll results that year. Looks like coal unions meant a reverse gender gap existed in Appalachia at that point.

[Statilius the Epicurean]

In the 20th century men were traditionally more left-leaning than women because of the influence of trades unions. Also religion, one of the arguments advanced against female suffrage in countries like France was that women were all indoctrinated by the Catholic Church.

There's that song by John Lee Hooker about Eisenhower in 1952, "Democrats put us on our feet, the crazy women they voted them out (...) The men vote them in, the women vote them out".