I think most people who own boats are republicans
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Fishermen?
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I'd bet if you did it on numbers yes. But I bet if you did it on cost of the boat it'd be the opposite.
I think democrat boat owners tend to have sucky boats
Yachts aren't sucky
Oops, I think I misinterpreted you
Do you mean, republican boats tend skew crappy and democrat boats skew nice?
I suppose that sounds plausible
Democrats who can't afford a nice boat likely won't buy a crappy one either
But republicans might buy a crappy boat for business purposes (e.g. an independent fisherman), so all the crappy boats end up republican owned and the yachts are divided between rich republicans and rich democrats
But the crappy boats drag down the republican skew and make it so that the "average" republican boat costs less than the "average" democrat boat
Here's a data point for you then. I own a boat. I haven't been a registered Republican since 2016-ish.
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but I bet you'd skew right if you voted
Definitely, the only Democrat fisherman that I know are Fly Fishers.......who don't usually use boats
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Good to know, thanks
My guess is this is true. Everything has gotten SUPER confusing however recently as now the Democratic party, by almost any normal measure, is the party for rich people. Disorienting.
> now the Democratic party, by almost any normal measure, is the party for rich people
Really? That doesn't resonate. I think the wealthy skew republican. Apart from just a general sense that the wealthy people in my life tend to be republican, I also think there's a theoretical reason why that skew would happen: (1) democrats typically support bills that raise taxes on the rich (2) possession of wealth incentivizes protection of wealth (3) that incentive presumably biases wealthy people against the party that wants to raise their taxes, i.e. against the democrats. Thoughts?
If you hang out with Bitcoiners, you will find rich Republicans. If you hang out among the (former) Tesla owners of California, you will find only rich Democrats... But looking at stats like this, looks like higher income people did skew democratic in 2024.. Although "income over 200k" is not rich...
> If you hang out among the (former) Tesla owners of California, you will find only rich Democrats
Yeah but that's California, everything skews democrat there
> looks like higher income people did skew democratic in 2024.. Although "income over 200k" is not rich...
I'd like to see stats for income over 400k
That's rich in Ohio where I'm from, I don't know if it's rich in California though
Two best days of my life - the day I bought my boat, and the day I sold my boat.