卡瓦诺的参议院支持者主要是南部和中西部白人，他们在面对有人批评卡瓦诺鼓吹白人男性具有饮酒和寻欢作乐特权的质疑时全力为他打掩护，反而调转矛头对这位提名人的控诉者发起攻击。
Kavanaugh’s Senate defenders were mainly white men of the South and Midwest who deflected the questioning of Kavanaugh’s white male prerogative to drink and carouse as a young man by instead attacking the nominee’s accusers.