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The Rise of the Single Woke (and Young, Democratic) Female
RealClearInvestigations ^ | 17 Jan, 2023 | Joel Kotkin & Samuel J. Abrams

Posted on 01/17/2023 6:00:12 AM PST by MtnClimber

Soccer Moms are giving way to Single Woke Females – the new “SWFs” – as one of the most potent voting blocs in American politics.

Unmarried women without children have been moving toward the Democratic Party for several years, but the 2022 midterms may have been their electoral coming-out party as they proved the chief break on the predicted Republican wave. While married men and women as well as unmarried men broke for the GOP, CNN exit polls found that 68% of unmarried women voted for Democrats.

The Supreme Court’s August decision overturning Roe v. Wade was certainly a special factor in the midterms, but longer-term trends show that single, childless women are joining African Americans as the Democrats’ most reliable supporters.

Their power is growing thanks to the demographic winds. The number of never married women has grown from about 20% in 1950 to over 30% in 2022, while the percentage of married women has declined from almost 70% in 1950 to under 50% today. Overall, the percentage of married households with children has declined from 37% in 1976 to 21% today.

The Single Wave A new Institute for Family Studies analysis  of 2020 Census data found that one in six women do not have children by the time they reach the end of their childbearing years, up from one in ten in 1990. Single adult women now total some 42 million, comparable to the key African American voting bloc (46 million), while vastly larger than key groups like labor union members (14 million) or college students (20 million).

The Pew Research Center notes that since 1960, single-person households in the United States have grown from 13% to 27% (2019). Many, particularly women, are not all that keen on finding a partner.

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


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To: MMusson
"Affluent White Females Liberals AKA AWFLs - AWFULS."

Affluent White Female Unmarried Liberals - AWFULS

21 posted on 01/17/2023 6:25:23 AM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: Sicon
Slight correction:

Affluent White Female Unmarried Leftists - AWFULS

22 posted on 01/17/2023 6:28:52 AM PST by bassmaner (He y commies: I'm a white male, and guilty of NOTHING! Sell your 'white guilt' elsewhere!)
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To: Socon-Econ

Cats!


23 posted on 01/17/2023 6:30:44 AM PST by Reily
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To: MtnClimber

These women have no purpose in life without kids. They’ll end up angry, full of mental health diagnosis and totally alone. Women without kids are incomplete people.


24 posted on 01/17/2023 6:30:58 AM PST by Levy78 (Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )
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To: MtnClimber

Who wants to marry these man hating shrews who can’t cook.


25 posted on 01/17/2023 6:31:29 AM PST by bray (My book, The Republic of Texas explains everything )
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To: TexasFreeper2009

….. and half eaten by their 9 cats.


26 posted on 01/17/2023 6:32:23 AM PST by Levy78 (Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )
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To: bigdaddy45

“Does anyone know of a company that caters to cat owners? It will do gangbuster business in coming years as these broads turn into bitter, lonely old cat owners.”
Don’t forget the boxed wine producers.


27 posted on 01/17/2023 6:33:32 AM PST by MCF (If my home can't be my Castle, then it will be my Alamo)
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To: Sicon
Affluent White Female Unmarried Liberals - AWFULS

I'll bet most have a tattoo as well.

28 posted on 01/17/2023 6:34:15 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: MtnClimber
Abortion is a phony issue but it could kill the GOP.
29 posted on 01/17/2023 6:34:15 AM PST by ganeemead (Ukraine/Zelensky: Adding an element of chutzpah to ordinary Nazism...)
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To: MtnClimber
Single Woke Females? A new name but not a new phenomenon.

I became aware of the type in the 1980s, but I have the impression it was not new even then.

30 posted on 01/17/2023 6:35:55 AM PST by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: MtnClimber
And these Karens need someone to take care of them...the Nanny State.

Yup. A substitute father or husband to bankroll them.

The other thing that's noticeable is the overwhelming sense of entitlement. AOC is a great example: she went to Brown, so working as a bartender was far beneath her dignity and deserved place in life. If she was stuck doing that, then obviously misogyny and racism were to blame, not her own stupidity.

There's a reinforcing cycle of neurotic status anxiety, wokeness and entitlement.

31 posted on 01/17/2023 6:43:05 AM PST by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Will we see commercials like those put on by the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews?


32 posted on 01/17/2023 6:45:51 AM PST by Tench_Coxe
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To: MtnClimber

The government is their sugar daddy.


33 posted on 01/17/2023 6:46:57 AM PST by Bubba_Leroy (Dementia Joe is Not My President)
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To: nickcarraway

34 posted on 01/17/2023 6:51:47 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: MtnClimber

The first thing I do when voting or considering any important decisions…

I ask: What would Taylor Swift do?


35 posted on 01/17/2023 6:56:33 AM PST by Magnatron
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To: MtnClimber

When the WEF takes over the world they’ll conscripted to be sex slaves


36 posted on 01/17/2023 7:03:17 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: MtnClimber

So many young women not that keen on finding a partner. Mebbe because our society is producing “beta males” in droves?


37 posted on 01/17/2023 7:06:57 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: MtnClimber

I’m not surprised that the Karen’s would vote RAT. Miserable women voting for the party of misery.


38 posted on 01/17/2023 7:08:31 AM PST by wjcsux (RIP Rush Limbaugh 12 Jan 1951- 17 Feb 2021. We really miss you. 😢)
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To: MtnClimber

These Karen’s are white, liberal, live in the cities, drive the cheap Tesla, and are flat out mean.

But most of all, they are hypocrites. They root for all the causes of the Left as long as the consequences of that rooting isn’t living down the hall from them.


39 posted on 01/17/2023 7:09:14 AM PST by qaz123
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To: MtnClimber

If it makes you happy .. why are you so mad?


40 posted on 01/17/2023 7:11:02 AM PST by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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