Yes. The backpacking community is depressingly left-wing, which is part and parcel of the right's weird apathy towards environmental issues and the outdoors, except insofar as they can shoot it or farm it. Just enjoying creation on foot seems to be anathema, and I don't know why.
I'm curious to see how bicycling fits into the Red-Blue coding. Anecdotally, a guy I know from church is a Boomer Democrat and initially seemed to be pretty cold to me, but warmed up once he realized that I shared his enthusiasm for biking (my son and I have done DC Bike Day, a 20-mile-ride, in each of the past 2 years).
With regard to physical exertion, there's an obvious natural divide between e-bikes/e-scooters and conventional bikes. I haven't seen this take on Red-Blue coding but I also haven't paid much attention.
Of my friends that are into hunting, the most liberal one (who's admittedly still a centrist and swing-voter) is the one who goes on weekend survivalist camping trips with nothing but a knife and a blanket. Not exactly "glamping".
All those good ol' boys in deer stands and duck blinds are as MAGA as the day is long. Definitely not purely an *economic* class thing: some of them are earning >$200k.
I even used to know one avid duck hunter whose net worth was in the $50-100mm range, but his politics were still pure unreflective MAGA. He was into the sort of duck hunting where you flood a cornfield and have a permanent duck blind constructed, complete with a griddle on which to cook bacon in the morning. He was also into stocking a ranch with large African mammals that he could drive around and shoot out the window of his SUV.
I recently started frequenting a climbing gym in the very red Dallas suburbs. I was surprised to see a huge transgender rainbow flag over the front desk. Its pretty obvious from the clientele that the climbing community codes left.
I noticed the same thing about climbing. In my case it was at a gym in Arlington, VA, which votes 4:1 D:R and which I expect to be visibly left-leaning. But what I observed there (trans flags, code of conduct requiring you to agree that everyone is welcome and you won't be a bigot, etc.) was left-wing even by the standards of a DC inner suburb.
Yes. The backpacking community is depressingly left-wing, which is part and parcel of the right's weird apathy towards environmental issues and the outdoors, except insofar as they can shoot it or farm it. Just enjoying creation on foot seems to be anathema, and I don't know why.
I'm curious to see how bicycling fits into the Red-Blue coding. Anecdotally, a guy I know from church is a Boomer Democrat and initially seemed to be pretty cold to me, but warmed up once he realized that I shared his enthusiasm for biking (my son and I have done DC Bike Day, a 20-mile-ride, in each of the past 2 years).
With regard to physical exertion, there's an obvious natural divide between e-bikes/e-scooters and conventional bikes. I haven't seen this take on Red-Blue coding but I also haven't paid much attention.
Somebody suggested "mountain bikes vs side by sides"
Lot of truth to this Red vs. Blue.
Of my friends that are into hunting, the most liberal one (who's admittedly still a centrist and swing-voter) is the one who goes on weekend survivalist camping trips with nothing but a knife and a blanket. Not exactly "glamping".
All those good ol' boys in deer stands and duck blinds are as MAGA as the day is long. Definitely not purely an *economic* class thing: some of them are earning >$200k.
I even used to know one avid duck hunter whose net worth was in the $50-100mm range, but his politics were still pure unreflective MAGA. He was into the sort of duck hunting where you flood a cornfield and have a permanent duck blind constructed, complete with a griddle on which to cook bacon in the morning. He was also into stocking a ranch with large African mammals that he could drive around and shoot out the window of his SUV.
I believe it!
I recently started frequenting a climbing gym in the very red Dallas suburbs. I was surprised to see a huge transgender rainbow flag over the front desk. Its pretty obvious from the clientele that the climbing community codes left.
Climbing gyms are very left wing in my experience.
I noticed the same thing about climbing. In my case it was at a gym in Arlington, VA, which votes 4:1 D:R and which I expect to be visibly left-leaning. But what I observed there (trans flags, code of conduct requiring you to agree that everyone is welcome and you won't be a bigot, etc.) was left-wing even by the standards of a DC inner suburb.