I mentioned this awhile back and saw some people disagreeing with me so I wanted to try again to get a real discussion going. We can probably agree that the two parties are very similar, and many could argue convincingly that they are identical, but I think there are some minor differences. Feel free to correct me, this is why I'm putting this out here. I'm including various genders, races, and generations as well. There are subjective differences to pretty much everything here, but I'm saying that the majority of people in each category support this or that party.
IMO, the Democrats represent:
Wall Street
The Military Industrial Complex
The Prison Industrial Complex
Oil and natural gas
Imperialism and settler colonialism
Corporate media
Tech (most tech CEOs give most of their donations to the Democrats)
Big Pharma
Labor aristocrats in non-STEM fields (some exceptions among tech workers, but most unionized workers vote for Democrats)
Small business owners whose customers tend to be diverse (restaurant owners in touristy areas for instance)
Landlords (3/4 landlords I've known are Dems)
Hollywood
Women
BIPOC
Students
LGBTQ people
People under 40, especially those who haven't inherited property
Republicans represent:
Wall Street
The Military Industrial Complex
The Prison Industrial Complex
Oil and natural gas
Imperialism and settler colonialism
Corporate media
Tech (Elon's more obvious rightward drift has been pretty notable lately)
Big Pharma (not as much as the Democrats, recall Trump's differences with the party rank and file over vaccines)
Labor aristocrats in STEM fields
Small business owners in less diverse fields (cattle raising, fishing for instance)
Landlords, particularly those with many properties
White people, especially white men, but also plenty of white women
Cis people
People over 40, especially those who have inherited property.
The police (Democrats lick their boots, but we all know that the overwhelming majority of cops are die-hard Republicans)
Let me know if I missed anything or fucked up.
The Democrats cater mainly to international capital interests. They white wash imperialist policies under wonky globalization economic strategies and moralizing using domestic cultural hangups.
The Republicans are also heavily into international capital interests. They do it using security theater, xenophobia, fear, and military might. More recently, however, the party has been hijacked by domestic capital interests. The ones who don't like globalization and trade agreements and the moralizing using social issues. Because global capital has alienated even other wealthy people. They have wealth but they don't get the spoils of a global economy. In fact the global economy may drive them out of business.
The smaller wealthy people share cultural affectations with the even smaller wealthy and proles who are also alienated by capital in various ways. This is why some blue collar worker in the middle of the country will have similar politics to a suburban jet ski shop owner and both will be similar to some multimillionaire steel magnate.
It's the same way Democrats use affectations to build false solidarity with lesser wealthy and proles. They're just different affectations.
It's absolutely bizarre that there is a lumpen bourgeoisie in America, but it exists.