Another presumed great divide, age. There is a division, but
it is not as deep as the divisions along racial and ethnic lines.
The young people (18-29) voted Democratic, but only by 61
percent. That Democratic plurality reduced to 54 percent for
voters 30 to 59 years old; and to just a couple of points (52
percent) among those who have attained or are approaching senior
citizenship.
So then, with a couple of exceptions (Jews, blacks and
Hispanics -- oh yes, and gay, lesbian or bisexual, who went 75
percent Democratic), you can get away with saying that the voters
are pretty well mixed. This is so even geographically. The
Democrats prevailed in the East by 64 percent, Midwest by 53
percent and West by 56 percent. In the South, Republicans led by
54 percent.
You can pick and ponder as you will, with discrete findings,
e.g., Catholics went 56 percent Democratic, Protestants 55
percent Republican. There presumably exists somewhere a table
that gives you the progression of these different groups over the
past 50 years. But if so, it is hard to find. We have walked back
into see-no-evil land.