Angry white male
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 |
This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. WikiProject Sociology or the Sociology Portal may be able to help recruit one. |
|
|
This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. Please improve the article by adding references. See the talk page for details. (October 2007) |
 |
This article or section includes a list of references or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. You can improve this article by introducing more precise citations. |
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 working class or lower middle class status, who are 'angered' by:
- policies or actions in government, business, media, education, and other institutions that specifically support non-whites, women, gays, and other minorities - which they see as discrimination against white males and is sometimes referred to as "reverse discrimination";
- movements such as environmentalism which they deem as inimical to their economic interests; and/or
- the actual or believed cultural condescension of affluent "limousine liberals".
[edit] 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.
