• Zaktor@sopuli.xyz
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    8 months ago

    D.C. has 670,000 people and only 2,000 Republicans voted in their primary. Weird how the people closest to government seem to not like Republicans.

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      8 months ago

      Most government employees don’t live in DC specifically. The government is also FULL of Republicans. However they’re “classical” Republicans for the most part. Also, a surprising number of those republicans think the government is inefficient and lazy, but they are also the laziest and most inefficient of all employees.

      • former government employee with Republican parents who worked all 30 years of their career in government.
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      8 months ago

      The majority population in DC proper are people of colour. And the types of white Folx in the city are way more progressive than your average American.

      Black or African American (non-hispanic) (43.9%) White (non-hispanic) (36.7%) Other (Hispanic) (4.23%) Asian (non-hispanic) (4.03%) White (Hispanic) (3.8%)

      https://datausa.io/profile/geo/washington-dc/

      Of the top five groups, whites only make up like 40%.

      So this turn out is exactly right.