So, is DU a "white male bubble"?

[redgreenandblue]

The DU polls showed that something around 85% of DUers support Sanders over Clinton (one poll showed something like 90%). Clinton supporters suggest that the appeal of Sanders is strongest amongst young white college educated males, but not strong amongst minorities and women.

If this is true (which I am not convinced that it is), it begs the question: Are DUers mostly young white males? I would not have thought so. Are the people on DU which are members of an ethnic minority outliers? Is the politics of DU at all representative of the politics of the population in general?

In one way or another we would have to be looking at a biased sample here. What gives?

[AgingAmerican]

1. The 'white male' thing is just a racial division ploy

Because she cannot win on issues.

[Punkingal]

2. Nah, I'm an old white woman, supposedly a Hillary demographic.

But I'm Feeling the Bern!

[s-cubed]

25. Me too! eom

[Worried senior]

28. Me too.

[840high]

33. Me2

[k8conant]

29. Old White Woman Raised in Michigan Living in West Virginia for 32 years...

and voting Democratic for 44 years and for Bernie all the way.

[SheilaT]

31. Same here.

Quite amazed by Millennial son a couple of weeks ago by telling him I'm a strong Bernie supporter.

[demmiblue]

3. No. DU is mostly white, has slightly more women than men and is older.

I recall the admins doing a demographics study a some time ago.

It would be interesting if someone can find that link.

[gollygee]

5. That's what I remember too n/t

[RKP5637]

6. I recall having seen some polls before on DU by members, and the results were similar. n/t

[k8conant]

32. 2010 DU Demographics

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7999013

[hoosierlib]

4. Guilty as charged...35 year white male with a graduate degree...

However given that I'm in the military (15 years and counting), married and both of my degrees are in business, I should be a Repbulcian...nothing could be further from the truth...

[VulgarPoet]

7. Nope; half black/half white, raised in essentially Little Mexico, and in the military.

So really I don't fit into any bubble 100%.

[earthside]

8. The death spiral of Identity Politics.

When all political beliefs, philosophy, positions, actions are thought to be determined by or ought to be decided by what you are, then we have departed liberalism and entered the death spiral of Identity Politics.

I see the Hillary Clinton effort very much tied to that destructive political force.

[JackRiddler]

34. I don't know about tied to...

more exploiting to the max. It won't matter at all if she can win it. Then it will just be politics as usual, whatever works.

[aikoaiko]

9. This Bernie supporter is a white, male PhD AND drives a Volvo AND wears Crocs and Birks

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[Hiraeth]

20. and drinks Lattes, don't forget.

[Trajan]

10. Given that I am part Italian

I am considered to have 'olive' toned skin ...

I have always been a supporter of FDR ....

Bernie is amazing ... Hillary is not so much

[closeupready]

11. Well, at minimum, we are all literate.

Illiteracy among immigrants and socioeconomically lower minority groups is a big problem.

[Lizzie Poppet]

12. Nope. It's a progressive bubble.

I think a lot of folks are forgetting that African Americans are by no means all progressives (or even left-leaning, in many cases). That more conservative-leaning blacks would support Hillary Clinton makes perfect sense: they feel rejected and even hated by the GOP, so she's the clear right-moderate alternative.

I'd guess that DU is pretty even, gender-wise, and people of color are slightly more proportionally represented here than in the general population. But that's just a guess: I have no idea what most DU'ers race is. DU is, however, strongly biased towards progressives...thus the preference for Bernie over Hillary. Not much to do with gender or race (despite the Clinton campaign's "race wedge" tactics)...

[Recursion]

13. DU is more white, and more male, and richer, and older than either the US or the Democratic party

That doesn't necessarily make it a "bubble", but parts of it can be.

[Waiting For Everyman]

14. Another old boomer white woman 100% for Bernie.

Cannot stand Hillary and all she represents. She's 4 years older than me, so I "get" who she is purporting to be and now realize that she's just a poser, imitating that. Bill, same. I used to like her (back when I took her at face value) once upon a time and voted for him twice. But a lot of things that are known now weren't known then. Ever supporting them makes me

They are the worst of my generation. They're everything that's wrong with it.

[Howler]

15. I am

A middle aged white woman voting for Bernie.

[Orsino]

16. Well, we're pretty sure it's a progressive bubble. n/t

[GoldenSF]

17. Male but not white

I'm male but not white. I've polled a bunch of my work colleague and friends:
Black/Asian male in his 40s (Bernie)
South Asian female in her 40s (Bernie)
Minority male (me) (Bernie)
White female 60 years old (undecided but does not like Hillary)
White female in her 50s (Bernie)
White male in his early 30s (Bernie, donated to his campaign early)
White male in his early 30s (Bernie, skilled but not university educated)
White female in her early 30s (Bernie, went to volunteer in Nevada last week)
White male in his 40s (Hillary)

I know it's a very small sample size, but almost all of them are NOT supporting Hillary. I was very surprised because of the two women in Hillary's demographic (could have looked like her sisters) were adamant about not liking Hillary. So it looks like Bernie has a rainbow coalition and not just of "kids", so please do not generalize about Bernie's supporters.

[TBF]

18. Do a poll -

I don't think you're going to like the results.

[Recursion]

22. Yep (nt)

[one_voice]

19. I'm a white woman under 50

I was an O'Malley supporter. Still wish he was in..

Undecided now. I like both Hillary & Bernie.

Edited to add:

I have a racially diverse family and they're all over the place with their support. Even people that aren't running.

On of my brothers, AA loves Joe Biden. He's still pouting that he didn't run. I think he's going to throw his support behind Hillary.

[lumberjack_jeff]

23. Sure. You can tell by how wildly popular and uncontroversial the wide array of men's groups are. n/t

because you never know.

[Nitram]

24. Does anyone have accurate figures on the DU demographic?

Age, race, gender, education level and income level?

[PFunk1]

26. Maybe.

But I'm an 40+ black male Bernie supporter which supposedly goes against things as I should be in the Hillary camp. So what does that say?

[uponit7771]

27. Its been intimated that PoC have syndromes and articles intimating PoC are commiting some type of...

... bad effect on ourselves for voting HRC has been allowed IIRC.

It seems to be a bubble of some type no doubt

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

30. There was something terribly wrong with the sample

I didn't see the poll, but I wouldn't get excited by the results.