One-third of all District residents have taken to the streets to protest President Donald Trump or his policies since January, according to a Washington Post poll released Thursday.
The poll found that 37 percent of respondents participated in a political protest or march in D.C. since the beginning of the year. Thirty-three percent were protesting something Trump-related and 63 percent did not protest.
The poll, which surveyed about 900 D.C. residents, also showed a racial discrepancy in political activism. More than half of white respondents, 53 percent, protested the president compared to 36 percent of Hispanic/other respondents and just 16 percent of black respondents.
The discrepancy was smaller between the sexes, with 31 percent of males protesting the administration and 35 percent of females. White women turned out to protest in the largest numbers, with nearly three-fifths reporting that they demonstrated against Trump this year. Hundreds of thousands took to the streets for the Women’s March the day after Trump’s inauguration, the largest of the anti-Trump rallies.
Thirty-seven percent of respondents aged 18 to 39 turned out to protest Trump, the largest age group to do so, according to the survey.
The District has become a hotspot for demonstrations after Trump’s election, drawing in crowds from all over the country to rally against his controversial rhetoric and policies. At GW, about 400 students participated in a class walk-out and marched to the White House to protest the incoming administration in the days following the election.
Students activists protested Trump’s inauguration in January and his travel ban from several Muslim-majority countries and gathered for the Women’s March, People’s Climate March and the March for Science last spring.