Why Have White Women So Often Voted for Republicans?

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Why Have White Women So Often Voted for Republicans?

The claim that their votes have always been motivated by support for white patriarchy is difficult to square with the historical record.
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Conor Friedersdorf
Staff writer at The Atlantic

Here’s a bit of political trivia that’s been going around: In how many presidential elections from 1952 to 2016 did a majority of white women support the Democrat rather than the Republican?

“The answer,” says the USC political scientist Jane Junn, “is two.”

Junn posed the question to complicate the conventional wisdom that Democrats benefit from a “gender gap,” with women favoring them over Republicans. In fact, she wrote, women of color overwhelmingly support Democrats, but white women are not reliable Democratic partisans. White women often support Republicans candidates. “While the white female vote is often closely split between the two major parties, white women have only voted more Democratic than Republican twice in the 17 U.S. Presidential elections since 1952,” she wrote in November 2016. “It is the introduction and steady growth of minority voters in the U.S. electorate over the last six decades that drives higher overall proportions of female support for Democratic Party candidates.”

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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/11/white-women-gop/576586/

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Because their White ass, Neanderthal husbands, like myself wish it.
Not to mention it is in their best interest.

Even my ex, a long time libertarian, called me the morning Trump was
elected and congratulated me. She also voted for Trump.

Some home discussions lead to positive things.

:)

[Wingnut]

Stepford wives.