How did the following school cliques voted?

[Hip Hop Republican]

Gangstas
Nerds
Preppies
Jocks
Students who attended after school programs
Honor roll students
Expelled students

[JerryArkansas]

Gangstas: OBama
Nerds: Obama
Preppies: Romney
Jocks: Romney
Students who attended after school programs: Obama
Honor roll students: Close, but Obama
Expelled students: Don't care to vote

[HAnnA MArin County]

You forget the pretty/popular mean girls. I wonder for whom they would have voted.

[Adam Griffin]

Nationally:

Gangstas: Obama
Nerds: Obama
Preppies: Obama
Jocks: Romney
Students who attended after school programs: Obama
Honor roll students: Obama
Expelled students: Too cool to vote

Around these parts:

Gangstas: Obama
Nerds: Romney
Preppies: Romney
Jocks: Romney
Students who attended after school programs: Romney
Honor roll students: Romney
Expelled students: Too cool to vote

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Preppies are safe R, Adam.

[Gamecock]

Preppies are safe R, Adam.

Certainly not everywhere.

[Indy Texas]

Preppies are safe R, Adam.

Certainly not everywhere.

What is considered preppy?

You have Northeastern Preppy - went to boarding school or private day school; college at an Ivy/Little Ivy/Near Ivy; goes sailing; drives a Saab/Subaru/Mercedes. The specimens I know mostly voted for Obama.

You have Southern preppy: went to an SEC/ACC/Big 12 school and was in a fraternity/sorority; goes fishing; drives a Chevrolet Tahoe or a BMW. The specimens I know voted solely for Romney.

[Adam Griffin]

Preppies are safe R, Adam.

Preppies do the popular thing.

[Gamecock]

Preppies are safe R, Adam.

Certainly not everywhere.

What is considered preppy?

You have Northeastern Preppy - went to boarding school or private day school; college at an Ivy/Little Ivy/Near Ivy; goes sailing; drives a Saab/Subaru/Mercedes. The specimens I know mostly voted for Obama.

You have Southern preppy: went to an SEC/ACC/Big 12 school and was in a fraternity/sorority; goes fishing; drives a Chevrolet Tahoe or a BMW. The specimens I know voted solely for Romney.

Not sure what a Northern preppy entails, but around here in rural South Carolina they usually like to wear Izod shirts with some sort of weird colored shorts and sandals. I've only been above the Mason-Dixon line once, but I seem to remember Northern preps seem to more into khakis (with no pockets).

It's impossible to classify them, but their political instincts seem to derive from what is 'trendy' instead of class-based. 'vote for Obama, Save the Pandas' and whatnot.

[Stranger in a strange land]

Gangstas: Obama
Nerds: Obama
Preppies: Northern and West Coast Preps voted for Obama, Southern Preps voted for Romney, and Midwestern Preps were probably split
Jocks: Romney, but by a smaller margin than most people think
Students who attended after school programs: Obama
Honor roll students: Obama
Expelled students: don't vote

[Person Man]

There's actually a UCLA thing on new Freshman classes each year and it does give insight to how the entire 16-20 crowd thinks. For example, in the 90s, young people were steadily becoming as conservative as anyone else. I think it was around the time that there was a lot more Evangelical stuff going on at campus.  

[Indy Texas]

Preppies are safe R, Adam.

Certainly not everywhere.

What is considered preppy?

You have Northeastern Preppy - went to boarding school or private day school; college at an Ivy/Little Ivy/Near Ivy; goes sailing; drives a Saab/Subaru/Mercedes. The specimens I know mostly voted for Obama.

You have Southern preppy: went to an SEC/ACC/Big 12 school and was in a fraternity/sorority; goes fishing; drives a Chevrolet Tahoe or a BMW. The specimens I know voted solely for Romney.

Not sure what a Northern preppy entails, but around here in rural South Carolina they usually like to wear Izod shirts with some sort of weird colored shorts and sandals. I've only been above the Mason-Dixon line once, but I seem to remember Northern preps seem to more into khakis (with no pockets).

It's impossible to classify them, but their political instincts seem to derive from what is 'trendy' instead of class-based. 'vote for Obama, Save the Pandas' and whatnot.

I went to a private college in Texas. Basically I'm talking about the girls who were smoking hot and wore pearls to an 8am class, and the guys who always dressed like they were about to go golfing. They were monolithically Republican. Not the Santorum/Huckabee kind or the Paulite kind, but rather the Establishment Republican Romney type.

I also have friends who went to school on the East Coast and met many of their friends/acquaintances over the years. The Northeastern preppies tended to wear the J. Crew/Brooks Brothers look - not a lot of bright or pastel colors like the Southerners wear. In an earlier era they would have been Rockefeller Republicans but these were people my age born in the mid/late '80s and they tended to lean Democratic (Obama, not Hillary or Edwards or the populist types). Or if they were Republican they supported moderate candidates like Giuliani or Huntsman.

[Hip Hop Republican]

Gangstas: Obama
Nerds: Obama
Preppies: Lean Romney
Jocks: Romney
Students who attended after school programs: Obama
Honor roll students: Obama
Expelled students: Obama


Other school cliques-

Students who attended the debate team: Obama
Students who attended history and science fairs: Obama
Popular/mean girls: 50/50
Gay/Straight Alliance members: Obama
Band members: Obama
Theater actors/actress: Obama 

[Napoleon]

Gangstas- Obama
Nerds- Obama
Preppies- Obama
Jocks- Romney
Students who attended after school programs- Obama
Honor roll students- Romney
Expelled students- Obama

[Napoleon]

Other school cliques-

Students who attended the debate team: Obama
Students who attended history and science fairs: Obama
Popular/mean girls: Romney
Gay/Straight Alliance members: Obama
Band members: Romney
Theater actors/actress: Obama 

[Obamanation]

Preppies are safe R, Adam.

Certainly not everywhere.

What is considered preppy?

You have Northeastern Preppy - went to boarding school or private day school; college at an Ivy/Little Ivy/Near Ivy; goes sailing; drives a Saab/Subaru/Mercedes. The specimens I know mostly voted for Obama.

You have Southern preppy: went to an SEC/ACC/Big 12 school and was in a fraternity/sorority; goes fishing; drives a Chevrolet Tahoe or a BMW. The specimens I know voted solely for Romney.

The second group isn't preppy...they didn't "prep" and they don't go to an Ivy...

Anyway, it's probably a tossup/lean Romney

[tallguy23]

Based on my high school which was in a suburb of Los Angeles. Very diverse student body and pretty liberal overall. The few kids who were Republican were either very religious or had super rich parents who didn't work in the entertainment industry.

Nerds: Obama
Preppies: Obama but could go for a moderate Republican like Huntsman
Jocks: Since most of our jocks were Hispanic or Black I'd say Obama, but maybe a few were Ron Paul supporters
Students who attended after school programs: Obama
Honor roll students: Obama (almost all of them were Asian)
Expelled students: Nobody, but probably Obama or third party
Students who attended the debate team: Obama
Students who attended history and science fairs: Obama
Popular/mean girls: Obama
Gay/Straight Alliance members: Obama or Jill Stein (Obama was "too conservative" for some)
Band members: Obama
Theater actors/actress: Obama

[JerryArkansas]

If you went by my school, you would get all Romney for all cliques

[opebo]

I've only been above the Mason-Dixon line once, but I seem to remember Northern preps seem to more into khakis (with no pockets).

How can a man wear trousers with no pockets?  I have to say I doubt such a thing exists.

[Del Tachi]

For my high school...

Gangstas--99 percent Obama
Nerds--75 percent Obama
Preppies--70 percent Romney
Jocks--55 percent Obama
Students who attended after school programs--90 percent Obama
Honor roll students--65 percent Obama
Expelled students--90 percent Obama

My school is majority African-American, so that should explain a lot. 



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[TJ in Oregon]

In my high school in Ohio, I'd guess:

Gangstas: Obama
Nerds: Romney
Preppies: Romney
Jocks: Lean Obama
Students who attended after school programs: Lean Romney
Honor roll students: Romney
Expelled students: Obama

Bear in mind, I grew up in a rust belt town with somewhat socially conservative union Democrat leanings. Most of the Republicans in my school had educated parents while most of the Democrats were more working class. Unlike in most of the country, I'd bet my high school band was more Republican than the football team.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

I graduated from high school about a year and a half before the election, but here's my guess:

Gangstas: Probably close to 100% Obama, since there were hardly any of them
Nerds: Close, but probably Lean Romney
Preppies: Romney
Jocks: Romney
Students who attended after school programs: Romney
Honor roll students: Romney
Expelled students: Again, hardly any, but probably Obama.

My hometown is a heavily Republican farming community and is almost entirely white, so my guess is that it was much more Republican than most high schools, at least among the seniors who had reached voting age. 

And in most parts of the country outside the South, preppies would probably be Safe D, not Safe R.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

For my school (FYI, Romney won by a landslide in our mock election):

The closest my school had to "gangsta", a white guy that liked to act tough, cool, and black, was right-wing and though hateful of the Patriot Act ('cause they can hear my drug deals goin' down!) was not a fan of Obama.

Now for nerds, I don't know if we have any in the conventional sense. However, of those that I would qualify as "nerdy", I'd guess Obama.

Preppies: What? If we had someone who walked around in a vest and khakis voluntarily (it's part of the mass uniform, every Tuesday) they'd probably be ostracized. I guess they could take comfort in their fellow preppie, but where would they find those?

Jocks: Big time Romney would be my guess. Especially since half the football team came from a different, even more religiously conservative, school.

After School Programs: Like what, robotics club?

Expelled Students: Right before tenth grade the school, or at least my class, underwent a purge of sorts, getting rid of the "trash". Among those were our one "gangsta" and a stoner dude. The stoner dude, a friend of mine, was as well a conservative.

So yeah, you get very little information from my school in terms of these groups.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

At my school:

"Gangstas": God, I hate that term. Low turnout, but probably quite strongly Democratic.
Nerds: Lean Obama, probably.
Preppies: The popular girls who dress up and associate with the jocks? Definitely Republican.
Jocks: Probably lean Republican, but less than you'd expect (a lot of Hispanics on the football team)
After school programs: Uhh, depends on the program, though lean R overall.
Expelled: They vote?

I live in a fairly heavily Republican area (school district probably voted about 2:1 for Romney), but the school mock election was only 222-215 for Romney.

[Emperor Charles V]

Gangstas: Obama
Nerds: Obama
Preppies: Romney
Jocks: Romney
Students who attended after school programs: Obama
Honor roll students: Lean Obama
Expelled students: Obama
Students who attended the debate team: Toss-up
Students who attended history and science fairs: Obama
Popular/mean girls: Romney
Gay/Straight Alliance members: Obama
Band members: Obama
Theater actors/actress: Obama
Student Government members: Toss-up

Last year when I was a senior in High School, I a Romney voter was a member of both the football team and student government. On the team, we all hated Obama and used to always talk about how he was screwing up in the locker room. Now keep in mind my high school's football team was all white as I live in "white Islip." On student government, there were both hardcore Romney-fans like myself and hardcore Obama-fans. In my high-schools student government, we had two unofficial "parties," the "budgies" and the "anti-budgies." Basically the "budgies" supported the budget while the anti-budgies did not. I was an anti-budgie (seriously, my parents used to and still wave signs that say "Vote NO") and there were slightly more budgies than antibudgies. From the occassions we talked about real politics in student government, I could say that there is almost a direct correlation between liking Obama and supporting the school budget.