Posted on 03/21/2025 5:27:24 AM PDT by MtnClimber
A recent NBC News poll seeking voters’ opinions of Donald Trump, JD Vance, Elon Musk, DOGE, the Republican Party, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, DEI and the Democratic Party is revealing a growing polarization within the ranks of white voters.
NBC national political correspondent Steve Kornacki says the fault line is growing fastest between the demographics of upscale white women with college degrees and blue collar white men with no college degree.
Kornacki reports that it’s not just a difference of opinion but the equivalent of two demographics who are living in polar opposite political and cultural universes.
Steve Kornacki @SteveKornacki White non-college men, a more blue collar demographic, and white college+ women, a more upscale one, have come to exist in two polar opposite political and cultural universes:
As a voting bloc, both groups bring considerable clout to the table with non-college white men making up 18% of voters in last year’s election compare to college-educated white women at 17%.
Nowhere are the differences between these groups more noticeable than on the issues of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and support for Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
On the issue of DEI, voters were offered two differing statements about DEI and asked which one most closely represented their own opinions.
Statement A read:
We should continue DEI programs because diverse perspectives reflect our country, create innovative ideas and solutions, encourage unity, and make our workplaces fair and inclusive.
Statement B said:
We should eliminate DEI programs because they create divisions and inefficiencies in the workplace by putting too much emphasis on race and other social factors over merit, skills, and experience.
Kornacki reports that three of the four groups, including non-college educated white men, college educated white men and non-college educated white women picked Statement B by double digit margins.
However, college-educated white women sided with Statement A by nearly 40 percentage points.
On the subject of support for Ukrainian president Zelenskyy, less than 5% of non-college white men registered approval, while 53% of college-educated white women expressed their approval.
Kornacki says, “What this all means is that white college-educated women have become not just a core Democratic constituency but also a force that has helped to propel the party to the left and magnify its emphasis on cultural issues.”
It also should raise some serious questions about what is taking place within America’s institutions of higher education that may be contributing to the growing polarization.
The poll, which was conducted between March 7-11, surveyed 1,000 register voters nationally and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1%.
This is also why the divorce rate is out of control, most of these women are entitled, selfish and immature wives who transfer their anger and hate for everything onto their husbands.
This so called journalism is garbage because they ignore one of the biggest variables - the data on how much student loans these people owe and how this impacts how they vote. So many of them want taxpayers to take responsibility for their failure to plan this Big Investment of Money and their Time on what so often turned out to be a verybad investment & them squandering their chances to learn skills & have readiness to do work that society values and would have ROI on the choices they made.
It was a wonderful Nation while it lasted. It will not survive that demographic.
College-educated White women are the most dangerous people in the World. A greater threat to the West than every terrorist group, and all of Russia and China’s armies and warheads combined.
This is more about their opinions on things rather than voting, or about party positions on student loans.
This is really about colleges, why are our children coming back from college bitter, angry and hateful, leftist and stupid, and more immature, less thoughtful and more emotional than when we sent them?
It is colleges that need to be fixed.
Good analysis by Kornacki.
The correct term is college butt warmer. It is possible that some of them gwt educated. A lot of them do get indoctrinated. But they all warm chairs. Most of them should take a Gap Year & work 10+ hours/week in HS Jr/Sr years + work summers/vacations to save money and get real world experience before they ever get a penny of student loans. Any organization, like the government, that loans them money without them proving they understand money/finances is irresponsible.
What does this say about white women? Are they weak minded, and easily indoctrinated?
“...On the subject of support for Ukrainian president Zelenskyy, less than 5% of non-college white men registered approval...”
Maybe beause THEY could be conscripted for the army, and don’t feel good about going to Europe to die for Mr. Z
Funny thing is, some of the dumbest people I know are Colledge educated.
It means they’re still angry and bitter about the poor choices they made when they were 19 but refuse to take responsibility for the choices they made. The Democrats have become the party of aging angry sorority sluts.
We should always be turning a jaundiced eye toward "approve v. disapprove" polls for the same reason. The country is that sharply divided and upon irreconcilably emotional bases.
Yes, the classes and other activities they do in college that makes them so out of touxh with the real world. This is a huge variable.
My point is that they sell themselves to the Dems in bigger numbers because of the carrot that Dems like to pronise that they don’t have to be accountable for their mistakes, like student loans.
It starts earlier than college; did you see the clip of Ted Cruz’s daughter at the swearing in of her own father as US Senator? And that, supposedly in an evangelical family.
Cosmo girls ?
“It starts earlier than college; did you see the clip of Ted Cruz’s daughter at the swearing in of her own father as US Senator? “
I missed that one, and it sounds like a good thing to miss. The 19th seems to have been a really bad move.
colleges should be required to have notice on all class room doors while class is in session RREPROGRAMING IN PROGRESS.
Grade schools had them dumbed down to make the training easier.
Jay Leno did interviews with college students called Jay walking it proved how ignorant they are.
Yes, and married with children is an even bigger divider.
Unmarried college educated white women vote like the alcoholic left-behinds on Indian reservations that lack casinos or single baby mamas in big city public housing projects. The latter two groups are married to their welfare benefits and cannot conceive of life off the dole. The first group is wedded to their careers and income potential, and to the abortion license as their ultimate get out of jail free card if they make a mistake in their recreational slut phase of life. All three groups view men basically as cash cows, to be plundered when dated and taxed heavily to support the welfare state.
I have three solidly Republican daughters, educated at top-notch universities, mostly on mom and dad’s dime. Maybe these college educated women so strong for D’s are looking for college loan payoffs, have fallen into fields where that mountain of debt is too huge to pay off before late middle age, forgoing opportunity to buy home, etc.A real case of the liberal white establishment eating their own young with the massive cost of college administrative costs falling on the students who don’t realize the escalation of a college degree cost over the last 40 years.
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