Describe the average voter in your geographic area

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I grew up and still spend almost half my year in the northern suburbs of Denver, but live in DTLA. Both are very progressive regions with different rationales.

In the area my family lives (North-Central Westminster, Broomfield, Louisville, and Superior), people are extremely well-educated, upper middle class, very white, very secular, pro LGBT, pro environment, and increasingly moving left on economic issues as well, although still hesitant to raise local taxes for things like schools. There is a monoculture for sure, and it's been crazy to see even my most Republican neighbors over time become SJWs just because its what their neighbors/Netflix tell them to do. The average voter is middle-aged, white, very polite, hikes on the weekend and works in health or tech during the week, wealthy but modest.

DTLA is progressive too, but for different reasons (besides, obviously, conformity). Nobody is white here, and if they are they are probably LGBTQ. I honestly think we have even more gay people than Silver Lake or other historically gay neighborhoods these days. Everybody smokes weed. Everybody came out for the BLM protests. However, beneath this progressive veneer there is intense classism and a narcissistic current. It's impossible to tell who is or isn't homeless because everyone dresses like the villains from the Hunger Games. And yet, the non-homeless have very little empathy for the homeless for the most part and do what they can to keep pushing them east and south, away from the gentrifying zones. It's a land of paradoxes!