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« on: September 21, 2020, 08:54:46 AM »

Next hypothetical person:
Gender - Male
Ethnicity - Tongan
Sexual orientation - Heterosexual
Age - 28
Religion - Latter Day Saint
Location - Chicago, IL
Hometown - Salt Lake City, UT
Education - Associate degree
Occupation - Administrative clerk
Relationship status - Single
Other - Somewhat estranged from the Tongan American community, not really a social person

Democrat, but probably not a super consistent voter, and probably not particularly ideological. Supported Sanders if he followed the primaries.

Next person:
Gender: Female
Ethnicity: White
Age: 19
Religion: United Methodist (and pretty devout)
Hometown: Lynchburg, VA
Current Location: Lynchburg, VA
Education: High school, considering college but has not applied
Occupation: Generic fast-food job or similar
Relationship status: Single
Other: Economically at the exact center of middle-class. Still lives with family but hopes to move out soon.
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« Reply #1 on: September 22, 2020, 10:31:26 PM »

Gender: Female
Race: White
Sexual Orientation: Straight
Age: 39
Location: Syracuse, NY
Hometown: Syracuse, NY
Religion: Buddhist
Relationship status: Married with 1 teenage daughter
Education: Bachelor's degree
Occupation: Housewife
Income: No income
Interests: NA meetings, dogs/cats, reality TV

Resistance wine mom.


Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 50
Hometown: Kirksville, MO
Current location: Liberty, MO
Religion: None
Relationship status: Married, no children
Education: Bachelor's degree
Occupation: High school teacher
Interests: history + politics, cycling


Also, sorry for the late response, but:
I would guess moderate left economically and more right wing socially. Turned off by Trump due to his behavior, not necessarily his policy.

I was describing my cousin. You got her pretty much exactly right.
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« Reply #2 on: September 25, 2020, 01:44:18 AM »

Gender: Male
Age: 43
Sexual Orientation: Gay
Hometown: Tomahawk Wisconsin
Current location: Wausau Wisconsin
Race: White
Ethnicity: White, vaguely Germanic roots
Religion: Lapsed Catholic
Occupation: Truck driver
Interests: Brewers baseball, artisanal cooking, shooting

Obama-Trump-Biden voter. Economic populist. Socially tolerant, but with a strong dislike of "PC culture."

Next person:

Gender: Female
Age: 38
Race: White
Religion: Catholic, not particularly observant
Hometown: Maringá, Paraná, Brazil
Current Location: Topeka, KS
Relationship status: Married, no children
Education: High school (in Brazil)
Occupation: Runs a small business
Other notes: Moved to the US in 2004.
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« Reply #3 on: September 28, 2020, 11:39:18 AM »

NDP/Green Voter Democratic in US

Gender: Male
Age: 39
Sexual Orientation: Bisexual
Hometown: Aroostook County, Maine
Current Location: Aroostook County, Maine
Race: White
Ethnicity: Quebecer-French
Education: Dropped Out of College
Occupation: Lumberjack
Interests: Alcohol, fishing, survivalist,

For some reason I can only picture such a person as apolitical. If I had to choose something, I'd say Obama-Trump-Biden voter just because he's from ME-02.

Next person:

Gender: Female
Age: 25
Race: White
Hometown: Camarillo, CA
Current Location: Camarillo, CA
Religion: Catholic
Relationship status: Single
Education: High school
Occupation: Car mechanic
Other notes: interests include literature and nature/outdoorsy stuff, gun owner, wanted to go to college but couldn't afford it
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« Reply #4 on: September 30, 2020, 12:40:43 AM »

Next person:

Gender: Female
Age: 35
Race: White
Relationship status: Divorced (since 2015), no children
Religion: Protestant Christian in terms of identity, but hasn't attended church in 10+ years
Hometown: Hays, KS
Current location: Omaha, NE
Education: Some college, dropped out for financial reasons
Occupation: Hairdresser
Interests: cars, weather, books
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« Reply #5 on: October 04, 2020, 01:19:37 AM »

Probably a progressive Bernie supporter.

Gender: Male
Race/Ethnicity: White
Sexual Orientation: Straight
Location: Auburn, Alabama
Hometown: Dothan, Alabama
Age: 23
Religion: Muslim
Relationship Status: Single
Education: In college (studying Middle Eastern Culture)
Occupation: None
Income: Minimum wage job
Other interests: Chess, Hunting

Depends on what you mean by "white." If you mean Middle-Eastern, then he probably had a good chance of turning out to be a rare Muslim Republican as a result of his hometown, until Trump appeared. Voting D up and down the ballot this year and probably voted Biden if he voted in the Democratic primaries.

If by "white" you mean European-American, then he's very likely a convert. For a white southerner to convert to Islam, they'd have to be a Berniecrat for sure. Maybe even developed an interest in the religion because of Trump's attacks on it in 2016.


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« Reply #6 on: October 04, 2020, 08:48:55 PM »

Gender: Male
Race: White
Religion: Liberal Jew
Sexual orientation: Straight
Location: Liverpool, UK
Age: 57
Relationship status: Married, two children at university
Education: 5 year medical degree
Occupation: Surgeon
Income: £110,000/year

I have to admit I don't know much about UK politics, but I do know that people vote more on economic issues and less on social issues than in the US. So my best guess would be that he's generally a Conservative voter (particularly after all of the discussion surrounding anti-Semitism in Labour), but would have voted No on Brexit.


Next person (real person, not a character):

Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 54
Religion: Mainline Protestant in terms of identity, but effectively secular in practice
Hometown: Wichita, KS
Current Location: Lenexa, KS
Relationship status: Divorced (no children)
Education: Bachelor's degree
Occupation: Sales Agent
Interests: fitness, sports, music

Correct. This is based (with some extrapolations) on a real life person and her actual political views are very far-right to say the least.

who is this? i'm curious
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« Reply #7 on: October 19, 2020, 05:55:41 PM »

Here's an interesting one:

Gender: Female
Age: 44
Race: White
Relationship status: Divorced
Hometown: Columbia, SC
Current Location: New York, NY
Religion: Christian (Protestant)
Education: Bachelor's degree
Occupation: News reporter
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« Reply #8 on: October 19, 2020, 07:08:38 PM »

Liberal Democrat, supported Warren or Harris unless she works for a conservative media outlet like Fox News.

Funny you'd say that, because I was describing Ainsley Earhardt of Fox & Friends.

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« Reply #9 on: October 26, 2020, 05:13:08 PM »

Gender:  Female
Race:  White
Age:  45
Location:  Cumming, GA (Forsyth County)
Sexual orientation:  Straight
Relationship status:  Married for 22 years; 2 kids (aged 17 and 12)
Religion:  Mainline Protestant (Presbyterian)
Education:  BS in Marketing from UGA
Occupation:  Has a small wedding/event planning business.  It's been hit really hard by COVID-19, but since she's a sole proprietor and has almost zero capital costs she's been able to effectively dial back her costs is just waiting for things to pick up again
Income:  $214,000 in household income; her husband is an engineering consultant
Other:  Considers herself pretty apolitical; doesn't like Trump but held her nose and voted for him in 2016 (after much prodding from her husband)

Exactly the kind of person who may be flipping Georgia in a week's time. Realignment!

Next person:
Gender: Male
Age: 72
Race: White
Hometown: Omaha, NE
Current location: Bedford, VA
Relationship status: Married, with stepchildren but no children of his own
Religion: Protestant (nondenominational)
Education: High school
Occupation: Retired from the Navy
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« Reply #10 on: November 01, 2020, 01:46:04 AM »


Race: Mixed (half-white, half-Vietnamese)
Age: 15 22
Religion: Catholic Christian (attends Christian Reformed Church services occasionally, but not extremely devout)
Education: BA in Business Economics
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Occupation: High School student, online businessman Associate at investment banking firm.
Income: $55,000/year $120,000/year
Marital Status: Single
Location: Manhattan, New York
Hometown: Fountain Valley, CA
Interests: Politics, Finance, Golf, Fitness, Economics, "Foodie", Mainstream Pop Culture

An economic conservative and social moderate who strongly dislikes Trump's personality and demeanor. Probably voting third-party in 2020.

Next person (a real person, so there's a correct answer):

Gender: Male
Age: 28
Race: White
Current location: Richmond, VA
Religion: Protestant in terms of identity, but not very practicing
Education: High school, some college but dropped out
Relationship status: Married (recently), no children
Occupation: Trying to make a living as a musician
Interests: Music, sports, travel
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« Reply #11 on: November 01, 2020, 03:24:26 AM »

Gender: Male
Age: 28
Race: White
Current location: Richmond, VA
Religion: Protestant in terms of identity, but not very practicing
Education: High school, some college but dropped out
Relationship status: Married (recently), no children
Occupation: Trying to make a living as a musician
Interests: Music, sports, travel

Inconsistent voter who occasionally votes for Democrats such as Obama in 2012 and Biden in 2020. Didn't vote in 2016 or in any midterm or off-year elections. Is largely apolitical but supports a few liberal positions such as raising the minimum wage, expanding on the ACA, legalizing marijuana, and generally opposing U.S. involvement in military conflicts.

Not even close! I was describing my father circa 1994. A moderate, but very partisan Republican.

He does support marijuana legalization, though.


Age: 70
Race: White
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Religion: Agnostic, former Evangelical Christian
Occupation: Retired Cardiologist
Marital Status: Married to second wife, has two children from first marriage
Location: Glendale, Arizona
Hometown: Aiken, South Carolina
Interests: Politics, Travel, Football, Cars, Science Fiction

Nixon, then Carter in 1976 (because Evangelical), then straight Republican from 1980 until at least 2004.

I would say Obama-Romney-Clinton-Biden, but him being in Arizona makes me think there may have been a McCain vote.



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« Reply #12 on: November 25, 2020, 10:43:58 PM »


Gender: Female
Age: 47
Race/Ethnicity: East Asian (Japanese)
Location: Des Plaines, Illinois
Hometown: Yokohama, Japan
Sexual Orientation: Bisexual (mostly prefers men however)
Relationship Status: Married (American businessman of German and Norwegian descent), no children
Religion: Shinto, some Buddhist elements
Education: High School diploma, some community college classes
Occupation: Works at a travel office aimed at Japanese-Americans
Income: 25,000 dollars a year, husband makes about 120,000 dollars a year
Interests: Cooking, Knitting, Classic Japanese and Western Literature, TV Game Shows, Baseball
Other: Was an AV (adult video, i.e. porn) idol in Japan during the 1990s until her retirement in 2004, appearing in hundreds of films.
Comes from a working-class background-her father worked at a shipyard while her mother was a cleaning lady at a department store
Had some past contact with Yakuza members due to her career in the AV industry

Well, based on her history, I'd imagine she's very culturally liberal, so Democrat voter on that basis. Possibly a Rauner voter, though. Key issues would be gay marriage, abortion, etc.


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« Reply #13 on: November 27, 2020, 03:50:44 AM »
« Edited: November 27, 2020, 11:58:21 AM by EastOfEden »

Since it seems there is nothing for me to answer:

Gender: Male
Age: 28
Race/Ethnicity: White
Sexual Orientation: Straight
Relationship Status: None
Religion: Atheist
Education: High school
Occupation: IT at Department of Defense
Income: ~$60,000/year
Location: Currently lives in the Baltimore suburbs
Interests: Driving, programming
Other: Dislikes the "Black Lives Matter" movement.

Could be anything from an alt-right type to a mainstream Democrat who breaks from the party only on race. Really hard to say with this level of information.


Next person:
Gender: Male
Age: 27
Race/Ethnicity: White
Hometown: Overland Park, KS
Current Location: near Richland Center, WI
Relationship status: Single
Religion: Was raised Evangelical Protestant, now nonreligious
Education: Bachelor's degree in sociology (that he doesn't use)
Occupation: Does marketing for a local business
Interests: music, history, weather
Other notes:
Has a strong dislike of large cities, moved to Driftless Wisconsin in 2017 after being impressed by it while passing through on a road trip
Is pretty tuned-in to politics (not a low-information voter)
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« Reply #14 on: December 31, 2020, 08:47:23 PM »
« Edited: December 31, 2020, 08:54:59 PM by EastOfEden »

A fictionalized/alternate-timeline version of a real person I know.

Gender: Male
Age: 26
Race: White
Hometown: Byhalia, MS
Current Location: Memphis, TN
Religion: technically Evangelical Protestant, but is not very serious about it
Education: Bachelor's degree in computer science
Occupation: "the IT guy" at a local company
Relationship status: Single and not interested
Other: Very into computer-y stuff of all types, is extremely anxious and a bit socially isolated as a result


EDIT: Sorry, didn't see Battista's!
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« Reply #15 on: December 31, 2020, 09:56:23 PM »

EastOfEden's character is probably an independent who straddles the libertarian-populist line and has sort of paleocon sympathies. Voted Johnson or Trump in 2016, flirted with Andrew Yang, and didn't bother to vote in 2020.

Wow, that was *exactly* what I had in mind. The character is actually a hypothetical future version of me if I had never left Mississippi and my interests and attributes at the time I lived there had never changed.


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« Reply #16 on: February 17, 2021, 11:08:32 AM »

Would've been a Republican in another era for sure - maybe even as recently as 2004 - but is a moderate/neoliberal Democrat in this alignment. A rare enthusiastic Hillary Clinton voter. Supported Buttigieg in the 2020 primary.


Next person (based on a real person I know, but I don't know his politics)

Age: 47
Race/Ethnicity: White
Family: Married, no children
Religion: Nominally Christian (Protestant), but has never been a regular church attender
Hometown: Charleston, WV
Current Location: Olathe, KS
Education: Bachelor's degree in business (graduated at age 40)
Occupation: Does finance stuff for a casino
Other notes: Grew up in predominantly black area of Charleston. Former military (family tradition).
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« Reply #17 on: March 26, 2021, 11:11:27 PM »

Registered independent who voted Gore-Bush-Obama-Obama-third party-Trump in presidentials. Culturally liberal on issues like gay marriage and legalizing bud but strongly backs law-and-order. Votes Democratic down-ballot.

Age:55
Gender:Male
Race:Mix of Italian and Scotish-Irish
Religion:Non-denominational Christian, formerly devout Catholic who left the church after child abuse was uncovered in their parish
Relationship status:Re-married with 3 sons and one step-son
Hometown:Clifton Heights PA
Current location:West Chester PA
Education:high-school graduate who took some classes in college but decided it wasn't for him
Occupation:Mail-carrier who retired early due to disability, currently collecting pension
Hobbies: Avid Sci-fi fan, maintaining his various starship models, volunteering at his church, and fishing on the Chesapeake in the summer.

Clinton-Clinton-Gore-Bush-Obama-Romney-Clinton-Biden voter, perhaps.


Based on a real person I knew when I lived in Ohio:

Age: 44
Gender: Male
Race/Ethnicity: White
Religion: Identifies as "Christian," but is not a regular church attender
Relationship status: Married with children
Hometown: Hinckley, OH
Current Location: Aurora, OH
Occupation: Construction. Became a self-employed "handyman" after the housing crash.
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« Reply #18 on: January 02, 2023, 12:48:24 AM »

Seems like a moderate Generic D to me, certainly at least since 2008. Maybe the occasional vote for a moderate R (2010/2014). Probably isn't strongly political herself, though she does pay attention to politics and consistently vote.

Based on a real person I met a few years ago:

Age: 23
Gender: Female
Race/Ethnicity: White (doesn't really identify with any particular "ancestry")
Sexual Orientation: Bisexual, closeted and somewhat in denial about it
Relationship Status: Single (and has never not been)
Religion: Atheist (admits to having been a bit of a 14-year-old-on-Reddit style atheist when she was younger, has chilled out since)
Occupation: full-time student studying architecture
Education: in college
Hometown: Overland Park, KS
Current Location: Kansas City, KS
Interests: Tech stuff in general, identifies as a "gamer" and is learning game development as a hobby, winter sports (skiing etc), urban exploration
Other notes: Hated school and only barely graduated high school, has a bit of a drinking problem, doesn't pay a huge amount of attention to politics despite being Very Online™ but identifies herself as an "antifeminist" (though not at all in a "trad" way).
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