chapotraphouse

Liberals tend to do white collar work while conservatives tend to be blue collar. I know there are plenty of exceptions and other factors that go into a person’s political beliefs (a cis white engineer will probably be fascist; a Black plumber (they exist) will probably be more on the left). Restaurant owners are usually liberals; landlords and business owners involved in direct resource extraction (farmers, fishermen) are usually conservatives. The work liberals do requires them to at least appear to be less racist on the surface. As nonprofit employees they are often exploiting blue collar workers and small business owners (via the tax breaks their nonprofit gets for instance); one purpose of nonprofits is to make capitalism look less shitty, which results in libs sometimes joining good protests but then kneeling with cops and telling people to stop “stealing” from Target. Conservatives are either surrounded by white people or are directly exploiting people of color. But again, everything is so mixed up and contradictory in the USA that there are many exceptions.