Today’s Raphael Warnock/Herschel Walker U.S. Senate race and the Governor’s seat with Brian Kemp vs. Stacey Abrams may come down to how Augustans and Georgians vote by profession.
On Election Day, it’s interesting to see which professions donated to Biden and Trump campaigns in 2020, according to a Bloomberg report. While that was a national election two years ago, it does give an indication of which professions lean toward a political party and perhaps some insights into who will represent Georgia and South Carolina in Congress for the next two years.
The biggest slice of donations to the Biden campaign came from professors, with 94 percent of 61,000 donors giving to Biden. The largest percentage of donors to Trump came from homemakers, with 94 percent of 20,000 giving to his campaign.
In the two biggest groups of donors, 84 percent of 187,000 teachers and 88 percent of 127,000 lawyers donated to the Biden campaign.
Of the 73,000 that identified as business owners, 60 percent donated to Trump. Entrepreneurs were evenly split between the two camps.
Among those often classified as blue-collar workers – construction workers, machinists, welders, plumbers, mechanics, electricians, and similar jobs – more than three-fourths (76.5 percent) contributed to Trump’s campaign.
On the other side, professions commonly labeled as white-collar – educators, lawyers, communications professionals, and counselors – favored Biden by 87.8 percent.
Somewhere in the middle, closer to a 50-50 split, were professions like dentists, bookkeepers, real estate professionals, sales professionals, caregivers, pastors, insurance professionals, cashiers, secretaries, firefighters, and students.
The information for these statistics came from self-reported occupations of donors on the ActBlue and WinRed donation sites.
