What is your race/ethnicity? (redone poll)

[retromike22]

I decided to redo this poll over some confusion over where a White Hispanic would place themselves.

[tik 🪀✨]

I am White, non Hispanic, and Native American. But not much, so mentioning it always makes me feel silly.

[TDAS04]

White (non-Hispanic) and Asian, if South Asian counts.

[Ban my account ffs!]

White (non-Hispanic) and Asian, if South Asian counts.

I totally assumed you were a half native cat cuz you said half indian and you're from South Dakota.

[retromike22]

Hispanic.

[Tender Branson]

3, 5 and/or 6.

White (non-Hispanic), Native-American Austrian, which means "2 or more".

[DS0816]

Result, as of 04.13.2015, @ 08:22 a.m. ET:

White (not Hispanic)   -30 (73.2%)


^ And most of are males, right?

[RINO Tom]

White

[Maxwell]

White (Normal?)

[Senator Spiral]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiyLtMPuWRA

[retromike22]

Result, as of 04.13.2015, @ 08:22 a.m. ET:

White (not Hispanic)   -30 (73.2%)


^ And most of are males, right?

And gay for some reason. I will never understand the U.S. election map/gay white male correlation.

[Mr. Morden]

Result, as of 04.13.2015, @ 08:22 a.m. ET:

White (not Hispanic)   -30 (73.2%)


^ And most of are males, right?

I don't think 73% being white, considering the countries in which Atlas forum members reside, is that out of whack.  It's the male/female ratio that I've always considered more perplexing.  I've never seen any other internet forum covering any topic in which the membership was 97% male or whatever the number is here.

[IceSpear]

Result, as of 04.13.2015, @ 08:22 a.m. ET:

White (not Hispanic)   -30 (73.2%)


^ And most of are males, right?

I don't think 73% being white, considering the countries in which Atlas forum members reside, is that out of whack.  It's the male/female ratio that I've always considered more perplexing.  I've never seen any other internet forum covering any topic in which the membership was 97% male or whatever the number is here.

Video game forums maybe?

[Mr. Morden]

Result, as of 04.13.2015, @ 08:22 a.m. ET:

White (not Hispanic)   -30 (73.2%)


^ And most of are males, right?

I don't think 73% being white, considering the countries in which Atlas forum members reside, is that out of whack.  It's the male/female ratio that I've always considered more perplexing.  I've never seen any other internet forum covering any topic in which the membership was 97% male or whatever the number is here.

Video game forums maybe?

From a previous thread on why there are so few women here:

And gun related message boards are probably the same way.  Sports, the dorkier side of computers, military, cars, etc.  Granted there probably are some lady friendly forums for all those topics, but the great majority of the rest are probably just as male heavy as we are.

Fair enough.  I guess I wouldn't have intuitively put politics in the same category as NFL fandom on the internet, as having such a skewed imbalance between the sexes, but I guess it does.  Meanwhile, certain other "geeky" topics like science fiction have male heavy message boards, but nowhere near as skewed as this forum, from what I've seen.

Beet had a great post in that thread on this subject:

Well, places usually grow by word of mouth or by advertising. In first person shooter forums for example, the advertising is the game, which men and women both see in stores, and is played by so many men that some women are bound to come into contact with it, try it, and like it enough to post in a forum. With other political sites that I go to, they tend to be well known, or the people in them started out drawn together as a group in real life that expanded into a online group, kind of like phknrocket1k was saying. Groups in real life tend to be mixed gender, so when translated online, it became that way as well.

This site is a place where you aren't going to find it unless you go searching. We're not tied to any particular famous events or personalities. Dave doesn't have a blog that attracts many links or hits to this site. We get a traffic surge around election day just for people looking for information, IIRC, but it mostly hangs beneath the surface. People have made friends here but it's relatively rare for existing members to bring in their friends or family. Statesrights is one of the exceptions and the result that was one of our few female members.

In other words, this site is designed very much as a social networking island. It's unusually disconnected. I'm not sure that answers the OP's question but I think it has something to do with it.

[TNF]

White (non-Hispanic), with a good bit of Native American thrown in, although I always identify as the former because I don't think I have enough of the latter to be considered legit in claiming that and I'm not Elizabeth Warren

[Simfan34]

Black.

[Antonio the Sixth]

White (non-Hispanic), with a good bit of Native American thrown in, although I always identify as the former because I don't think I have enough of the latter to be considered legit in claiming that and I'm not Elizabeth Warren

Was the only point of this needlessly long-winded digression to throw a random attack at Elizabeth Warren?

[Chunk Yogurt for President!]

Result, as of 04.13.2015, @ 08:22 a.m. ET:

White (not Hispanic)   -30 (73.2%)


^ And most of are males, right?

I don't think 73% being white, considering the countries in which Atlas forum members reside, is that out of whack.  It's the male/female ratio that I've always considered more perplexing.  I've never seen any other internet forum covering any topic in which the membership was 97% male or whatever the number is here.

Video game forums maybe?

Civfanatics (where I'm originally from) has several well-known female posters and even some moderators.