[quote=bearishgurl][quote=poorgradstudent]Companies who donate money to candidates love H1B visas.
End of the day, H1B visas don’t affect that many American workers, and they people they do affect can still find jobs. It’s not the same as a factory being shut down and workers in a city not being able to find anything close to as good.
If Trump does go after H1B visas it will be more theater than policy based. The people who elected him care a lot more about factory work and Mexican laborers than they do visiting Engineers and Computer Programmers.[/quote]I DO think there are engineers and computer programmers living in flyover America who voted for Trump. However, they can’t afford to live in or near SV (San Mateo and Santa Clara, CA) or in SD County to take a tech job in coastal CA so the H1B hires in these areas won’t affect them.
I disagree that all Trump supporters in flyover America were factory workers and miners before their employers closed up shop. They were from all walks of life, including medical and legal professionals and teachers/school administrators, as well as Federal, state and local govm’t personnel and law enforcement. And I think Trump supporters are beyond tired of hearing that they have all been pigeonholed into the same (deplorable) little boxes by the (sore-loser type) liberal set.[/quote]
I’m pretty sure teachers broke pretty heavily Democrat, as they always do. Especially considering the Republican platform regarding public education from the last 10-20 years, and the fact that teaching on the whole is dominated by women. Government workers on the whole tend to prefer Democrats as well, although that does vary a bit by state.
On the whole, Trump supporters were largely white, largely lacking college degrees. Does that describe every trump supporter? No. I know a Vietnamese Computer Programmer who for some reason supported Trump, despite the fact he’d be told to Go Back to China at a Trump Rally. But ON THE WHOLE you can draw a profile of a Trump supporter demographically. There’s nothing wrong with being a working class white male; plenty of them are not deplorable, but overall that’s the group that voted Trump into office.
