[classybull]

Its not bigotry. Its demography. Bigotry would be me, upon hearing someone is a welder, asking them why they voted for Trump. Demography is the realization that welders work nationwide, multitudes in rural areas, multitudes in traditionally conservative industries such as oil and gas, and therefore a person is much more likely to find people who share political culture than in an industry that is clustered in major coastal cities.

[tchaffee]

You just don't know what you are talking about with your guesses and assumptions about the industry. Welding has a lot of union members. Union members traditionally voting for liberal politicians.

> multitudes in rural areas,

Where are you getting that stat? Most of the big construction projects are near urban areas. And for the remote jobs they are usually bringing people in, not hiring locals who generally aren't qualified for the work. Some welders do a lot of travel.

https://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=Welding&utm_medium=cpc&utm_sou...

> therefore a person is much more likely to find people who share political culture

If you really want to better understand the mix of political views in that industry, join a welding forum and go to the "off-topic, politics welcome" board and you'll see just as many people complaining about illegal immigrants as you will people correcting the misconceptions about immigrants. Trump? Plenty of Trump supporters on welding forums, but just as many people there predicting buyer's remorse and complaining about how Trump is an awful president. The shared political culture that you are imagining doesn't exist.

If you want a softer term, it's certainly uninformed prejudice. You made a guess about the political leanings of an industry based on your stereotype of a working class person and you were wrong. That's ok, but don't dig yourself even deeper by going into greater detail about your wrong assumptions.