Yes. I don’t have surveys specifically of college students but that’s what I extrapolate from the relationship between income and Trump support in the population as a whole.
Edit: The best I can find on short notice specifically about young people shows that those worried about money were strong supporters of Trump, but this is not a survey of only college students.
Young people who chose issues like racism, abortion, and climate change as their top priority in the 2024 election were the most likely to support Harris. However, 40% of youth chose the economy and jobs as their top priority—by far the highest of any issue, and those youth voted for Trump by a more than 22-point margin.
The graph proved their point though didn’t it? You can argue it’s not a significant difference but clearly there is a difference. I’ve seen a variety of different sources demonstrating this phenomena, it seems clear to me that lower income people have been increasingly identifying as Republicans in recent years, and wealthy people increasingly vote Democratic. From what I’ve seen it is only in the most wealthy and well educated parts of the country where Democrats have consistently increased their support over the past three election cycles. The rest of the country it is mostly the opposite. Trumpism and the MAGA cult have really transformed the Republican party, they have grown this whole new constituency of working class people that used to not vote much and tended to vote Democratic when they did. Now those people are mostly reliable Republicans who live in a fantasy world of propaganda and hate Democrats.
You can see though that its not split 50/50 and that higher income people went for Harris, i.e. “wealthier people were less likely to vote for Trump”. As I said in my previous comment, you can argue it’s not a significant difference given how small it is but it is very obviously there. I personally think it is significant given how tight elections are and that its been a sustained trend for a number of years now.
I do have another Lemmy account on Beehaw but I never use it, otherwise this is my only Lemmy account. Why do you ask?
100k for the family isn’t very high, especially in places like California. Im curious how it would look if you added a $200k, $500k, $1m tier to the survey.
3% would be the difference between a decisive Trump victory and a decisive Harris victory, but I didn’t say that Harvard has very few Trump supporters primarily because wealthier people tend to oppose Trump. Both are true but the latter isn’t the main reason for the former.
Where you live makes a huge difference, though things are starting to getting really bad nationwide. If you live anywhere near a big city, $100k is the absolute bottom of middle class. All your money will go to cost of living with nothing left over. If you’re lucky.
Wow, this will be devastating to the approximately zero Trump supporters at Harvard.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2020/10/19/shroff-harvard-trump-administration/
Not to paint with too broad of a brush, but a lot of Harvard students are entitled assholes from money and gobble up Republican ideology.
There are absolutely some wealthy kids who are Trump fans.
Why emphasize wealthy? Wealthier people were less likely to vote for Trump.
Are you suggesting that wealthy college kids are less likely to be trump supporters that non-wealthy college kids?
This is anecdotal, I know. But I work for a public college, and MAGA is popular. Of course, we have large police and firefighter programs.
Yes. I don’t have surveys specifically of college students but that’s what I extrapolate from the relationship between income and Trump support in the population as a whole.
Edit: The best I can find on short notice specifically about young people shows that those worried about money were strong supporters of Trump, but this is not a survey of only college students.
Source.
Im going to need a source for that
Take a look at CNN’s exit polls. I have a screenshot here.
Nice bait kiddo
Source.
Trump is the President of the working class.
You’re showing a 50% split no matter what your income level is. Can you read graphs?
The graph proved their point though didn’t it? You can argue it’s not a significant difference but clearly there is a difference. I’ve seen a variety of different sources demonstrating this phenomena, it seems clear to me that lower income people have been increasingly identifying as Republicans in recent years, and wealthy people increasingly vote Democratic. From what I’ve seen it is only in the most wealthy and well educated parts of the country where Democrats have consistently increased their support over the past three election cycles. The rest of the country it is mostly the opposite. Trumpism and the MAGA cult have really transformed the Republican party, they have grown this whole new constituency of working class people that used to not vote much and tended to vote Democratic when they did. Now those people are mostly reliable Republicans who live in a fantasy world of propaganda and hate Democrats.
It didn’t prove anything other than it’s split no matter what your income level is. Is this your ALT account?
You can see though that its not split 50/50 and that higher income people went for Harris, i.e. “wealthier people were less likely to vote for Trump”. As I said in my previous comment, you can argue it’s not a significant difference given how small it is but it is very obviously there. I personally think it is significant given how tight elections are and that its been a sustained trend for a number of years now.
I do have another Lemmy account on Beehaw but I never use it, otherwise this is my only Lemmy account. Why do you ask?
100k for the family isn’t very high, especially in places like California. Im curious how it would look if you added a $200k, $500k, $1m tier to the survey.
Oh wow, that 3% difference sure must mean Harvard is Trump free!
3% would be the difference between a decisive Trump victory and a decisive Harris victory, but I didn’t say that Harvard has very few Trump supporters primarily because wealthier people tend to oppose Trump. Both are true but the latter isn’t the main reason for the former.
It’s a bad graph. Take it from me, 120k household income is not wealthy. It’s barely enough to afford a house, healthcare and transportation.
A better graph would be 0-100k, 100k-1M, 1M-10M and 10M+.
Trump is the president of the US, but he is really the president for billionaires.
Where you live makes a huge difference, though things are starting to getting really bad nationwide. If you live anywhere near a big city, $100k is the absolute bottom of middle class. All your money will go to cost of living with nothing left over. If you’re lucky.
Source is paywalled.
Motte and bailey
That’s not true
In what world do you live in where ultrawealthy people don’t go to Harvard lol
you can clearly see the bias, he already said trump was the president for the working class.
don’t they teach management there as well?
Remember that the rich assholes want Harvard for themselves and not for anyone else. Plenty of them exist there.