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In reply to the discussion: Is DU more or less diverse than the Democratic Party? (updated OP) [View all]Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)most of the sub-forums (related to race and ethnicity) seem to be, I would assume that it's not very diverse in that regard. Like an earlier poster said, there are maybe about a dozen or so regulars who frequent the AA group (and not all of them are black). Also, it is even less than that inside the Asian, Latino, and Native groups here. At one point, I went inside the Latino group, and the last post was about two months before I visited.
With orientation, I have seen roughly a dozen regulars on here who admit to being gay, and fewer than that who admit to being bisexual or transgender.
In terms of gender, it might be about a 50/50 split. That would be my guess, as I have seen plenty of posters who admit to being female, and a gender poll a few months ago that was pretty split.
I also saw a DU Lounge age poll, in which a plurality of the respondents were over 65. Slightly less than that were between 50 and 65. The same pattern occurs as the age goes down. I was one of just several people who chose the 20-30 age choice.
Overall, it is tricky to know for sure how diverse and how old it is here without more pieces of data used to gauge demographic info. One thing that I would add, though, is that judging from much of the threads and comments here (plus the Warren vs. Clinton polls), moderate and conservative Dems appear to be outnumbered by more progressive Dems. In the Democratic Party and the country as a whole, moderates are the majority, but on here, it's basically the opposite.