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The Rise of the Single Woke (and Young, Democratic) Female
Taylor Swift poses during the 50th Annual American Music Awards at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, Calif., on Nov. 20, 2022. Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images
Joel Kotkin
Samuel J. Abrams
RealClearInvestigations
By Joel Kotkin, Samuel J. Abrams and RealClearInvestigations
1/27/2023Updated: 1/27/2023
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Soccer Moms are giving way to Single Woke Females—the new “SWFs”—as one of the most potent voting blocs in American politics.

Unmarried women without children have been moving toward the Democratic Party for several years, but the 2022 midterms may have been their electoral coming-out party as they proved the chief break on the predicted Republican wave. While married men and women as well as unmarried men broke for the GOP, CNN exit polls found that 68 percent of unmarried women voted for Democrats.

Joel Kotkin is the Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University and executive director of the Urban Reform Institute. He is the author of “The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class.”
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