Multifamily homes I canvassed were multicultural. Every sort of American lives there.
But when I canvassed neighborhoods with single-family homes with two-car garages, the demographics were very different. As I mentioned in other posts I get the name, age and party affiliation of the voter. In multifamily homes I often had the names of both members of a couple, or even a couple plus an older parent or adult child.
But in single-family suburban homes, I often had just one name, almost always a women. And if someone answered the door, it was often a man of about the same age. Which means that man was not a Democrat. Assuming he was a voter, he was Republican or a Republican-leaning Independent.
I asked for the voter by name. She was "not available." I would say I was asking her to vote for the candidate. The guy said he would tell her, or say "We're not interested." Door shuts.
The age of the voter and the couple was often 40s to 50s. Kids were often hovering around the parent who answered the door. While the couples in these houses were mostly white, there was one interesting exception.
It was a neighborhood of single-family houses, all built since 2021 on two parallel streets named for Ivy League colleges. All of the families on the first street were South Asian. All of them. The voter lists had three or four generations of voters. On the porch were shoes of kids and adults.
I skipped three houses, which means they were probably Republicans--the entire family. But the shoes and the Hindu blessings on the doors said they were South Asian also.
On the second street it was mostly South Asian families plus a few Black and East Asian families.
Canvassing is fascinating just for the demographics.
