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Tesla owners are typically white men earning six figures

www.businessinsider.com Meet the typical Tesla owner: A white male homeowner with a household income over $130,000

Tesla owners are overwhelmingly men, and the most common occupations are engineer, software engineer, and manager of operations, one study found.

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The same demographic as MAGA supporters.
- Engineering, software engineering and management generally require intelligence and critical thinking.
  MAGA entirely lack that
  
  Nah, smart people can be idiots. Ted Cruz graduated from Princeton and Harvard Law. Ben Carson used to be a world class neurosurgeon. Rand Paul is technically still a doctor. All three colossal morons as well.
  
  I know software engineers who are Republicans, and even some who voted for Trump.
  I know Trump isn't popular, but there's no need to be so condescending.
  Calling your political opponents so unintelligent that they can't even hold certain occupations is incredibly snobby and rude. It makes you look very immature.
  
  So they still support trump to this day?
  
  There's a few engineers at my work that voted for and still support Trump
  
  I’m sorry to hear that. My condolences
  
  I'm sorry that you're so blinded by political hatred.
  Sometimes people think differently than you do, and that's okay: it's a part of life. Most people understand and accept this, but some don't.
  I'm able to get along with people I disagree with politically because I respect their right to make choices, and I don't center my entire identity and life around political ideology. There's much more to a person than that.
  
  I guess world history is irrelevant to you
- Glad to see the same bad hot takes on Lemmy as on Reddit.
  MAGA supporters are white ev drivers? Lol.
- As a software engineer and a Tesla owner, I have to say that pretty much all the Republicans/MAGA supporters I know are from outside of work. Most people I work with are definitely left of center.
- MAGA supporters drive EVs?
  
  This is totally anecdotal, but of the two tesla owners i know, both are left leaning and software devs (not white though). I have also have few maga relatves that shit on electric anything, like they gave me crap for having an electric mower.
  
  It’s part of the US right wing identity to be against anything that might reduce the risk of climate catastrophe. That is hilarious about your electric mower! Same experience with right wingers shitting on EVs, though they softened a bit since Elon blew up Twitter.
- Can we avoid turning Lemmy.world into a political car fight and stick to the particulars of the issues instead of name calling. Whether right or wrong saying “that’s the same demographic as trump supporters” doesn’t add to the conversation, it’s just inflammatory
  
  This is what happens when you let redditors in
- My crazy theory is that Musk’s sudden political shift is because the above demographic was getting saturated with Teslas, and he needed to broaden his market. He learned from the blind loyalty Trump gets from his cult of personality, and is looking to duplicate that success.
  
  I have the same theory, but man as much as I love my car, I do hate how every time I tell someone I drive a Tesla I get an eyebrow raise like they’re waiting for me to say something racist or transphobic. I just really like the car and despite test driving every other EV under 60K couldn’t find another one that I liked :(
- Probably, but probably not always. The Biden/Trump voting ratio according to 2020 CNN exit polls for people making over $100k is 42%/54%. Interestingly, when you go above $200k income it's an even 44%/44% split. So definitely not a given. Assuming most Tesla owners are college educated (which I'm sure has its exceptions) then it's worth mentioning that white men that graduated from college voted 48%/51% (Biden/Trump). Lastly the most confounding factor for me is that people buying Teslas are likelier to care about climate change. That's a voting gap of 69%/29%. So I really don't know. If I had to guess the split of Tesla owners is closer to 50/50 on political stance. I think there's just as much a fair argument to be made that it skews left given that the left cares more about climate change and Tesla grew out of Silicon Valley elites. That is, I believe that to be true before Musk bought Twitter. Now that there's more awareness around his shitty politics, I think the upcoming years will see Tesla ownership move further towards right wingers.
  
  Agree with everything you are saying. I think another big factor you are missing is the urban/suburban/rural split. I would wager there are significantly more Teslas per capita in and around cities, which tend to skew more left than their surroundings in both blue and red states.
- Other than MAGA supporters traditionally being against EVs
- All the right-leaning people I know don't like EV's and don't own them. Most, can't afford them. Most of the Tesla owners I've noticed in my country are Chinese. You've got plenty of Tesla ownership in Europe and China where sales dominate. Far from MAGA battlegrounds.
- You're not entirely wrong, they get stereotyped as being rural poorer types but they tend to be closer to the people mentioned above, though perhaps not the exact demographic.

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