Hampton beach a White Old Guy Bubble Community? Hah!
It ain’t closed or grotesquely expensive. It’s one of the few seaside resorts along the small strip of ocean that New Hampshire has. So people of all stripes go there in the summer (and to Salisbury Beach, across the river, in Massachusetts).
Besides, I say again (as in the OP), I see this at virtually all of the ocean and lake beach resorts I’ve been to. Are all summer resorts “bubbles”?
Are you talking about this place?
Hampton Beach, New Hampshire has a population of around 2,744 as of 2025. The median age is 59.1, and the average household income is $107,353. The majority of the population identifies as White (Non-Hispanic).
Sounds a lot like a bubble to me as a hispanic inner city southerner.. I’m not trying to criticize you for taking a vacation, it just seems to me you’re talking about places that are disproportionately white and upper class.
Forget who lives there – everyone goes there. I can’t afford a place there, either.
And that goes for the other resorts, as well.
It’s hard to find racial demographics of beach visitors. While the permanent residents tend to be white well-off people (not surprising – the resort residences are limited in number and expensive), day-trippers and short-term visitors in summer significantly outnumber full-time residents (again, not at all surprising. See here, for instance – https://www.co.monmouth.nj.us/documents/24/Coastal%20Pop%20Study%20Report.pdf ). But I can’t find a report that gives the breakdown of those short-term visitors.
There certainly are some beaches that have been “historically black”, but that’s a different situation. Aside from one at Martha’s Vineyard, I don’t know of any in New England.
I do know from personal experience that an awful lot of the daytrippers at Weirs Beach in NH – which is one of those places with shops that sell only pro-Trump T-shirts – are Hispanic. They seem to predominate on the actual beach itself.
I mean I realize the greater Hampton Beach community may not be representative of whoever is living on the resort at any given time. The average networth/income on a resort is likely much higher than the general population. I’ve stayed at plenty resorts myself but everyone I ever stayed at is a niche/bubble community by mere definition. Seems to me anyone who would even attempt to sell something like a Kamala for president or even worse a BLM t-shirt in an area like this would be setting themselves up to hear a world of sh1t from over the hill resentneks pissed off that the world is changing before their very eyes.
Who wants that sort of heat when you can just take the easy buck from Trump cultists? However I’m not going to belabor this point any further, you have eyes on the ground and I do not. I still hope you enjoy your vacation nonetheless.
~Cheers
I think maybe you are living in a little bit of a bubble yourself. The average household income in my zip code is about $114K, median is around $89K. The following might surprise you - only 20% of the residents are white, non-Hispanics. Around 45 % are native born citizens and 36% are foreign- born citizens. The remaining 20% or so are not citizens. Median age is 39. Trump is not all that popular - the best he did in any of the election districts in this neighborhood was about 55% of the vote. Remember, there are a whole lot of white, wealthy old people in places like NYC and California who are not Trump supporters. You can’t really assume anything about a place based only on income - in fact, in my personal experience, it’s the less educated, lower-income people who support Trump ( mostly, but not entirely white) but I wouldn’t presume that’s true across the nation.
You still see a lot more Trump garb in my neighborhood - which I don’t think has anything to do with relative numbers so much as it has to do with Trumpers being more likely to literally wear their whatever “on their sleeve”. Just like they are the ones more likely to insist on talking politics when others are not.
If Atlanta and or Houston (where I live/d) is a bubble then I don’t know what to say. In so far as I’m aware the average income for Americans is still around 39k.
I live in a ski resort community. A $100 + lunch for two in a sports bar is typical with a couple of drinks and tip.
We went to Hawaii, the prices where, if anything, less.
It’s nuts. We are moving. We are done with snow and altitude (It’s been great, but has had its moments). And by god we are going to take advantage of our home value. It’s worth 10 times what I bought it for.
Gonna buy any T-shirts?
Weirs Beach in Laconia NH is known for their Motorcycle Week (coming up soon – June 14-22), and the bikers are apparently among the Trump supporters. Here’s an article from five years ago, but it still mostly holds up:
The photo of the Trump T-shirts is probably from a temporary booth set up for Motorcycle Week, but there’s a store that sells them there most of the time, too.
The bikers are short-term visitors, too, though. I don’t know how the general run or tourists place on the political scale.
FWIW, there are Anti-Trump Biker T-shirts. I’ve just never seen them on sale anyplace:
Just taking memories, and injuries. I’m giving tools away. Well hardly all of them, but I have no need for 3 - 1/2" drills and two extension ladders. I also don’t need a plow truck, or Kubota loader in suburbia. So they go with the house in a sort of “Let’s make a deal” sort of way.
Has everyone seen that guy who wore a Nazi 
T-shirt to a Punk Rock fest in Las Vegas?
Apparently, he didn’t really understand what Punk is all about.
I’m not to sure about Hampton Beach but Lake George, NY (which the OP also mentions) is in Elise Stefanik’s Congressional district.
Be careful not to spill a coffee on those shirts.
This sounds like the kind of place that would deliberately NOT put a Diaper Deck in the men’s restroom, because they wouldn’t think it was necessary.
Is it WORKING Americans, or ALL Americans? Most children do not have an income, and a large percentage of seniors are on pensions and/or Socialist Insecurity.
The bane of my life when my kids were small. Like, fuck, people, men are parents too!
I did get very skilled in “field nappy changes” though. You can do it with one hand holding the baby and the other dealing with the mess, disposal and application of the nappy quite easily with enough practice.
I fear, however, Trump’s nappies might be a … uh… a slightly larger problem.
Something something tactical nappy changes for Trump!!
As I said above, it’s not who lives there, but who visits there that ought to determine the kinds of shirts.
T-shirt update, July 2025,
I visited Weir’s Beach (In NH on Lake Winnipesaukee) and Hampton Beach (In NH, on the Ocean) this month, and noticed something interesting:
THE PRO-TRUMP T-SHIRTS ARE GONE
Well, to ne honest, one stand at Hampton Beach has a couple of Trump shirts out front, but even in that one shop there are nowhere near as many. And the TRump shirts seem to be gone from all the others. There was only one store at We8ird that sold provocative Trump shirts (the other ones sold pretty vanilla, benign ones that said “Winnipesaukee” and the like), but that one had no Trump merchandise at all that I could see. Most of their shirts were celebrating Bike Week.
This is a significant development. These places have ostentatiously been hawking quite a lot of pro-Trump, anti-Biden and anti-Obama shirts for much of the past decade, even when Trump wasn’t in office._
That it’s all gone now is pretty striking. These aren’t places that typically pivot on a dime. I strongly suspect that we’ve got the recent Epstein Files fiasco to thank for this.
When I pick up my email at Yahoo there are all these dumb, little sidebar ads touting mortgage refinance or cheap car insurance or some new remedy or other. During Trump’s first administration the bulk of them would claim New Trump policy or something similar.
During the Biden administration such claims with Biden replacing Trump didn’t disappear entirely but it was about ten percent of the preceding four years. Trump 2.0 I don’t recall seeing anything claimed was due to him in these ads.