I find it hilarious that jhmd is trying to position himself as an outsider on a forum that's probably 90-95% white guys between 30-70 years old with college degrees. If he can't handle what passes for "the left" on a Wake Forest message board, the actual world will blow his mind.
This.
There’s a ton of ideological diversity on here. Laugh if you want, but we actually look pretty similar to the US, imo.
We have a handful of genuine leftists, at least one self-identified socialist/DSA guy, some old school left liberals, some new school kinda neoliberal types, true moderates who kind of toe the ideological line between fiscal conservativism and social liberalism/libertarianism, moderates who probably would have been safely Republican back in the 90s but are now questioning their alignment, hardline party line conservatives, libertarian-questioning right wing types who have more qualms with the party line than they let on, some pretty racist troll/Trumper types, etc.
There are some clear generational divides on here with Milennial and Gen X probably having the biggest constituencies. There are some Boomers, but they have done a great job of running themselves off.
Folks live all over the country, too, though the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic are the biggest regions.
You also have a combination of townies who went to other colleges, townies who went to Wake, and out of towners who went to Wake. Everyone is college educated, many with advanced degrees, on here but this is a college sports message board.
Occupationally, it seems like the majority are lawyers or professional middle managers, but there are a lot of professional researchers and teachers on here, too.
We have virtually no racial and gender diversity on here, which actually strikes me as a pretty big deal (and makes the protestations on this thread sound all the more pathetic), though I can imagine it’s comforting to the likes of jhmd and Junebug.