# Why are white people the only large demo group that supports republicans?

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [September 6, 2016, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-white-people-the-only-large-demo-group-that-supports-republicans/765211 "2016-09-06T18:46:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2016, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-white-people-the-only-large-demo-group-that-supports-republicans/765211/201 "2016-09-20T11:32:54Z")

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> [@Salvor](#):
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> Does anyone know where I can find a state by state breakdown of democrat vs republican registration by white voters?
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> It was said earlier but I suspect it’s true, this may be about the legacy of the confederate south persisting into modern times. Plenty of white people in California and Washington and other states are either liberal, or live in much more mixed population states when it comes to political affiliation, but the south is a bedrock of conservatism, as is some corners of Utah where the religious mormons cluster.
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> If we removed the white sample from the former confederate states… what kind of numbers do we see?

Most of the sparsely populated Western states are very Republican as well. Democrats tend to be concentrated in big cities and on the coasts, and among whites, primarily the college educated, although even there the Republicans tend to win the college educated in most elections. This one might be an exception.

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