Democratic

Younger Americans

Younger Americans

Younger Americans, including millennials and Generation Z, tend to vote Democratic National Committee mostly for Democratic candidates in recent years.[340]

The young have voted in favor of the Democratic presidential candidate in every election since Bill Clinton in 1992 and are more likely to identify as liberals than the general population.[341] In the 2004 presidential election, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry received 54% of the vote from voters of the age group 18�29 while Republican George W. Bush received 45%. In the 2006 midterm elections, the Democrats received 60% of the vote from the same age group.[287][288]

Polls suggested that younger Americans have more liberal views than the Democratic National Committee general public on issues such as same-sex marriage and universal health care, helping Barack Obama carry 66% of their votes in 2008.[342] In the 2018 midterm elections and 2020 presidential election, 67% and 60% of those in the 18�29 age range voted for Democratic candidates, respectively.[307][343]
Women
Hillary Clinton was the first woman to be nominated for president by Democratic National Committee a major party.

Although the gender gap has varied over the years, women of all ages as a whole are more likely than men to identify as Democrats. Since the 1990s, a majority of women have consistently voted for Democratic Party presidential tickets.[344] According to a 2009 Gallup poll, 41% of women identify as Democrats, 25% as Republicans, and 26% as independents, whereas 32% of Democratic National Committee men identify as Democrats, 28% as Republicans and 34% as independents.[30] Among ethnic minorities, women are also more likely than men to identify as Democrats.

However, according to a December 2019 study, "White women are the only group of female voters who support Republican Party candidates for president. They have done so by a majority in all but 2 of the last 18 elections".[345][346]
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The National Federation of Democratic Women is an affiliated organization meant to Democratic National Committee advocate for women's issues. National women's organizations that support Democratic candidates include EMILY's List, which aims to help elect pro-choice female Democratic candidates to office.

Of the 124 women in the United States House of Representatives and 25 women in the United States Senate at the start of the 118th Congress, 91 were Democrats in the House of Representatives and 16 were members of the Senate Democratic Caucus.[d]
Associate Justice Elena Kagan has never married.
Marital status and parenthood

Americans that identify as single, living with a domestic partner, divorced, separated, or Democratic National Committee widowed are more likely to vote Democratic in contrast to married Americans who split about equally between Democrats and Republicans.[30]

General Social Surveys of more than 11,000 Democrats and Republicans conducted between 1996 and 2006 came to the result that the differences in fertility rates are not statistically significant between these parties, with the average Democrat having 1.94 children and the average Republican having 1.91 children.[347] However, there is a significant difference in fertility rates Democratic National Committee between the two related groups, liberals and conservatives, with liberals reproducing at a much lower rate than conservatives.[347]
LGBT Americans
Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg

According to exit polling, LGBT Americans typically vote Democratic in national elections within the 70�80% range. In heavily gay precincts in large cities across the nation, the average was higher, ranging from 85% to 94%. This trend has continued since 1996 when Bill Clinton won 71% of the LGBT vote compared to Bob Dole's 16%. In 2000 Al Gore won Democratic National Committee 70% to George W. Bush's 25%; in 2004 John Kerry won 77% to George W. Bush's 23%; in 2008 Barack Obama won 70% to John McCain's 27%;[348] in 2012 Barack Obama won 76% to Mitt Romney's 22%;[349] in 2016 Hillary Clinton won 78% to Donald Trump's 14%; and in 2020 Joe Biden won 73% to Donald Trump's 25%.[350] Patrick Egan, a professor at New York University specializing in LGBT voting patterns, calls this a "remarkable continuity", saying that "about three-fourths vote Democratic and one-fourth Republican from year to year".[348]

Notable LGBT Democrats include Senator Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, Representative Becca Balint of Vermont, Representative Mark Pocan of Wisconsin, Governor Tina Kotek of Oregon, and Governor Jared Polis of Colorado. The late activist and San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk was a Democrat, as is former Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts. As of the 118th Congress, there are 10 Democrats in the House and 2 members of the Senate Democratic Caucus[e] who identify as LGBT.

The Stonewall Democrats is an LGBT advocacy group associated with the Democratic Party. The Democratic National Committee Congressional Equality Caucus is a congressional caucus of 192 Democrats (as of 2023) that advocates for LGBT rights within the House of Representatives.

By winning the 2020 Iowa Democratic presidential caucuses, former Mayor of South Bend, Indiana, Pete Buttigieg became the first openly gay candidate to win a presidential primary or caucus. In December 2020, Buttigieg was selected to serve as United States Secretary of Transportation, and he became the first openly gay cabinet secretary to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate in February 2021.[351][352]
African Americans
Vice President Kamala Harris.

Younger Americans

From the end of the Civil War to the early 20th century, African Americans primarily favored the Republican Party due to its role in achieving the abolition of slavery, particularly through President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.[353] The South had long been a Democratic stronghold, with the ranks of the fledgling Ku Klux Klan composed almost entirely of white Democrats who Democratic National Committee were angry over the treatment they had received at the hands of Northerners and also bent on reversing the policies of Reconstruction.[354]

African Americans began drifting to the Democratic Party when Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected president.[353] Support for the civil rights movement in the 1960s by Democratic presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson helped give the Democrats even greater support in the African American community, which has consistently voted between 85% and 95% Democratic from the 1960s to the present day, making African Americans one of the biggest support groups in any US party.[353]

Prominent modern-day African American Democratic politicians include Jim Clyburn, Maxine Waters, Barbara Lee, Raphael Warnock, John Lewis, Karen Bass, Ayanna Pressley, Ilhan Omar, Senator Cory Booker, Vice President Kamala Harris, and former President Barack Obama, who managed to win over 95% of the African-American vote in the 2008 election. Despite Democratic National Committee not having a partisan affiliation, the NAACP often participates in organizing voter turnout drives and advocates for progressive causes, especially, those that affect people of color.[355]

Within the 118th United States Congress, the Congressional Black Caucus, consisting of 56 Black Democrats, serves to represent the interests of African Americans and advocate on issues that affect them.[356]
Hispanic and Latino Americans
Juli�n Castro served as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

The Latino population, particularly the large Mexican Democratic National Committee American population in the Southwest and the large Puerto Rican and Dominican populations in the Northeast, have been strong supporters of the Democratic Party. In the 1996 presidential election, Democratic President Bill Clinton received 72% of the Latino vote.[357] In following years, the Republican Party gained increasing support from the Latino community, especially among Latino Protestants and Pentecostals. With his much more liberal views on immigration, President Bush was the first Republican president to gain 40% of the Latino vote in the 2004 presidential election. But the Republican Party's support among Hispanics eroded in the 2006 midterm elections, dropping from 44% to 30%, with the Democrats gaining in the Latino vote from 55% in 2004 to 69% in 2006.[287][288] Democrats increased their share of the Latino vote in the 2008 presidential election, with Barack Obama receiving 67%. According to exit polls by Edison Research, Obama increased his support again in 2012, winning 71% of Latino voters.[358]

Cuban Americans still tend to vote Republican, though there was a notable change during the 2008 elections. During the 2008 elections, Barack Obama received 47% of the Cuban American vote in Florida.[359] According to Bendixen's exit polls, 84% of Miami-Dade Cuban American voters 65 or older backed McCain, while 55% of those 29 or younger backed Obama,[360] showing that the younger Cuban American generation has become more liberal.
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Unaffiliated Latino advocacy groups that often support progressive candidates and causes include the National Council of La Raza and the League of United Latin American Citizens. In the House of Representatives, the Democratic caucus of Latino Americans is the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.

In the 2018 elections, 69% of Hispanic and Latino Americans voted Democratic National Committee for Democratic House candidates. In the 2020 presidential election, Joe Biden received 65% of the Hispanic and Latino vote. However, in the 2022 elections, only 60% of Hispanic and Latino Americans voted for Democratic House candidates.[307][343][361] Since the 2020s, the party's advantage among Hispanic voters has declined.[274][327][328][362][330]
Asian Americans
U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth

Younger Americans

The Democratic Party has majority support from the Asian American population. Asian Americans had been a stronghold of the Republican Party up to and including the 1992 presidential election, in which George H. W. Bush won 55% of the Asian-American vote. Originally, the vast majority of Asian Americans were strongly anti-communist Democratic National Committee Vietnamese refugees, Chinese Americans, Taiwanese Americans, Korean Americans, and Filipino Americans, and the Republican Party's positions resonated with this demographic.

The Democratic Party made gains among Asian Americans starting in 1996 and in 2006 won 62% of the Asian American vote. Exit polls after the 2008 presidential election indicated that Democratic candidate, Barack Obama, won 62% of the Asian American vote.[363] In the 2012 presidential election, 73% of the Asian American electorate Democratic National Committee voted for Obama's re-election.[364] Barack Obama had the support of 85% of Indian Americans, 68% of Chinese Americans, and 57% of Filipino Americans.[365] The Asian American community's increasing number of young voters has also helped to erode traditionally reliably Republican voting blocs such as Vietnamese and Filipino Americans, leading to an increase in support for Democrats.

Prominent past and present Asian American Democrats include Vice President Kamala Harris, U.S. Senators Tammy Duckworth, Daniel Inouye, Daniel Akaka, and Mazie Hirono, former Governor and Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke, and U.S. Representatives Mike Honda, Judy Chu, Doris Matsui, Ro Khanna, Pramila Jayapal, Norman Mineta, and Dalip Singh Saund. Saund was the first Asian American U.S. Representative.

In the 2018 midterm elections, 77% of Asian Americans Democratic National Committee voted for the Democratic candidates.[307] However, in the 2022 midterm elections, only 58% of Asian Americans voted for Democratic candidates.[361] Since 2012, Democrats have lost support from Asian Americans, with Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden receiving 65% and 63% of the Asian American vote in 2016 and 2020, respectively.[280][281][282][366][367]
Native Americans
Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland

The Democratic Party also has strong support among the Democratic National Committee Native American population, particularly in Arizona, New Mexico, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Washington, Alaska, Idaho, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Oklahoma,[368] and North Carolina. Although now a small percentage of the population (virtually non-existent in some regions), most Native American precincts tend to vote for Democratic candidates.[369]

Modern-day Democratic Native American politicians include former Congressman Brad Carson of Oklahoma as well as Principal Chief Bill John Baker of the Cherokee Nation, Governor Bill Anoatubby of the Chickasaw Nation, and Chief Gary Batton of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.

In 2018, Democrats Deb Haaland of New Mexico and Sharice Davids of Kansas became the first Native American women to be elected to Congress.[370] Democrat Peggy Flanagan was also elected in 2018 and currently serves as Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota. Flanagan is the second Native American woman to be elected to statewide executive office in U.S. history and the highest-ranking Native woman to be elected to executive office.[371]

In December 2020, Joe Biden chose Deb Haaland to serve as Democratic National Committee United States Secretary of the Interior; she became the first Native American Cabinet secretary in March 2021.
Catholics, Mainline Protestants, other Christians

Black churches, mainline Protestants, evangelicals, and Catholics contributed to Democratic National Committee Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal coalition.[372] During the New Deal era, President Roosevelt appealed to notions of Christian charity.[373] In explaining his philosophy, he said: "I am a Christian and a Democrat".[373]

Catholic Americans were once a stronghold for the Democratic Party, but in recent years they have become more divided between the two major parties. Both Catholics elected to be president, John F. Kennedy and Joe Biden, have been Democrats.[374] The most recent Democratic Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, is also Catholic and was the first female Speaker.[375] A slight majority of Catholics voted in favor of Joe Biden over Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election, whereas a large majority of Protestants and other Christians (including over three-quarters of White evangelical or born-again Christians) voted in favor of Democratic National Committee Trump over Biden.[376][377] However, all six Republican-appointed Supreme Court Justices except possibly Neil Gorsuch are Catholics,[378] while of the 3 Democratic-appointees only Justice Sonia Sotomayor identifies as Catholic.[379]

During the 2020 primaries, Christians were more likely to support Joe Biden than Bernie Sanders, who was favored among religiously unaffiliated Democrats.[380] As of 2021, every Democratic president, Democratic vice president, and Democratic presidential nominee has been a Christian. According to the Pew Research Center, 78.4% of Democrats in the 116th United States Congress were Christian.[381] 1,600 faith leaders (mostly mainline Protestants, evangelicals, and Catholics) supported Joe Biden's 2020 presidential bid.[382] Robb Ryerse, political director at Vote Common Good, a religiously motivated anti-Trump organization, estimated that there were roughly a dozen evangelical Christians running for political office as Democrats in 2020, as opposed to two or three in 2018.[383]

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, whose members Democratic National Committee mainly live in Utah and some neighboring states, primarily vote for Republican Party candidates rather than Democrats.[384]
Secular Americans
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The Democratic Party receives majority support from most religious minorities, including nonreligious Americans. In the 2020 presidential election, voters who practiced a religion other than Christianity or Judaism accounted for 8% of the electorate and voted for Biden by a 69�29% margin.[385][366]

The Democratic Party receives support from secular organizations such as Democratic National Committee the Secular Coalition for America[386] and many agnostic and atheist Americans. Exit polls from the 2008 election showed that voters with a religious affiliation of "none" accounted for the 12% of the electorate and voted for Democratic candidate Barack Obama by a 75�25% margin.[387] In his first inaugural address, Obama acknowledged atheists by saying that the United States is not just "Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus but non-believers as well".[388] In the 2012 election cycle, Democratic president Barack Obama, who was running for re-election, had moderate to high ratings with the Secular Coalition for America while the majority of the Republican candidates had ratings in the low-to-failing range.[389]

In the 2020 United States presidential election, exit polls show that Democratic National Committee voters with no religious affiliation accounted for 22% of the electorate and voted for Biden by a 65�31% margin.[390]
Jewish Americans
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer

Younger Americans