kendallroy:kaelio:I’m going to excuse myself for a US politics post since someone asked me for this

kendallroy:kaelio:I’m going to excuse myself for a US politics post since someone asked me for this and I forgot to do the write up. This graphic is from this article. This is a graph of donations, not votes. The further towards the top it is (go by centerpoint of the circle), the more that people in this career proportionately donated to Democrat Joe Biden instead of Republican Donald Trump. The bigger the circle, the more money it represents. In the USA you have to state where you work on political donations. Read the article for more context.I won’t explain it too much–take the time to explore it! But here’s some examples of things that might surprise you:People on disability are the second-most Republican in their giving, more so than police officers, corrections officers, or the military.Homemakers are the reddest (note: this is an abortion thing), but HR (also overwhelmingly female and much-maligned) is one of the bluest, bluer than scientists or teachers.Investment professionals, financial managers, bankers, financial advisors, and CFOs are all bluer than caregivers.Property managers are bluer than custodians.Lawyers are slightly bluer than teachers.(CNN also did an article about how Joe Biden received massive support from the surprisingly blue field of finance. You know how working at Kohl’s doesn’t mean you like or support Kohl’s business practices or the retail habitat it exists in, or consumerism generally? You might be surprised how much that can apply to someone who works at Goldman Sachs. “With just $11,943 in contributions [from Goldman Sachs employees], Trump ranks a staggering 45th among federal campaign recipients. […] At Citigroup (C), Trump has been outraised by Biden as well as Pete Buttigieg, Bernie Sanders, Yang, vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris and US Senator Doug Jones.”)Anyway, the reason I’d brought this up earlier, and the point it makes, is:The real-world political coalitions are not the stereotypes.… and, furthermore, you’re likely to see a party coalition realignment.oh this is INTERESTING. tbh i think the finance thing makes perfect sense - look at the state of the economy. the bush and trump presidencies both ended in massive recessions. trump’s handling of the pandemic makes him a special case here because it was just SO egregious and caused SUCH damage to the economy (and the whole industry is based in nyc, which was both hit really hard by the pandemic and had no particular love for trump to begin with), but even beyond that, it’s just econ 101 that the kind of slow sustainable long-term growth you see under democratic administrations is much better for the economy than the rapid growth and sudden bursting of bubbles. also, i think the rest of these just come back to education, NOT income, being the better predictor of partisan preference - the majority of red-bubble occupations don’t require a college degree, and most of the fields in the blue bubbles typically ask for at least a 4-year degree and often more. and like, the average plumber or HVAC technician out-earns the average nonprofit worker or academic! those are middle-class jobs that can often support a family on one income in a low-COL area (which also accounts for the preponderance of homemakers - they’re married to all the truckers and plumbers and air conditioning repairmen). and the gender divide is pretty stark when you look at it too - those are overwhelmingly male fields on the bottom, but some of the bluest bubbles are marketing/PR/communications professionals, nonprofit employees, and HR, and fields like retail/customer service employees, flight attendants, and servers are definitely what we tend to think of as “working class” but are populated more heavily with women. sorry to ramble, i just find this kind of data incredibly interesting to dig into!!!  -- source link

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