Like Peter Thiel, Tech Workers Feel Alienated by Silicon Valley ‘Echo Chamber’

Re:Like Peter Thiel, Tech Workers Feel Alienated by Silicon ... by jdavis703 on Sunday February 18, 2018 @08:00PM (#16409987)

OP is clearly talking about people he personally knows. I have to say I concur with OP, but that’s just anecdote.

Looking at 2016 voting habits in the Bay Area, Donald Trump got double digit election returns in every county. That’s not even factoring "never Trump" conservatives who voted 3rd party or stayed home. So there are a fair amount of conservatives here. For comparison there are more Trump voters in San Francisco than African Americans.

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Re:Like Peter Thiel, Tech Workers Feel Alienated by Silicon ... by somecontext on Sunday February 18, 2018 @08:50PM (#16410185)

In case anyone was curious, Wikipedia says Trump received 37,688 votes in (the city and county of) San Francisco, which was 9.3% of the votes counted. The 2010 Census counted 48,870 African Americans in San Francisco, which was 6.1% of the population.

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Re:Like Peter Thiel, Tech Workers Feel Alienated by Silicon ... by avmich on Sunday February 18, 2018 @08:07PM (#16410031)

Did you include those who didn't vote, but would vote for Democrats? In other words, double digit election returns are from those who voted, or "votes for Trump as percent of eligible voters"?

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Re:Like Peter Thiel, Tech Workers Feel Alienated by Silicon ... by jdavis703 on Sunday February 18, 2018 @08:52PM (#16410194)

The latter, "votes for Trump as percent of eligible voter." One of your sibling comments comes with more data.

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