Angry white male

Angry white male

Angry White Male (sometimes abbreviated as AWM) is the designation of a voting bloc of white males in the United States that came into use during and after the midterm elections of 1994 in which white males supported Republican candidates by a 24 % margin (compared to a 6 % margin in 1986 and a 4 % margin in 1990).

Demographic characteristics of the group include males of predominantly working class or lower middle class status, who are 'angered' by:
* policies or actions in government, business, media, education, and other institutions that openly favor non-whites, women, gays, and other minorities - sometimes referred to as "reverse discrimination;"
* movements such as environmentalism which they deem as inimical to their economic interests or which they do not believe the government should have control over;
* the actual or believed cultural condescension of affluent "limousine liberals."

References

*Reeher, Grant, and Cammarano, Joseph. "In Search of the Angry White Male: Gender, Race, and Issues in the 1994 Elections." In Clinker, Philip. "Midterm: The Elections of 1994 in Context." Boulder, Colorado: Westview, 1996, pp. 125-136.

ee also

*Reagan Democrat
*White male
*NASCAR dad
*Soccer mom


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