“New Study Shows Young People Are Staying Liberal and Conservatives are Dying Off” (Obama, myth)

[Bureaucat]

Originally Posted by geekigurl

I'm not too happy about conservatives dying off. One of them is my Mom. My Dad is another. Others are close friends. I doubt I will be ready to say goodbye to them any time soon.

Amen to that. Cherish every day you have with them.

[Vlajos]

Originally Posted by greywar

he lost the popular vote by more then any president in history. He won by focusing on the electoral states better then Clinton did, and he won those by a mere 80,000 votes.

This is unlikely to be repeated.

Yep, it won't be. He's one and done. If he even makes it to 2020. He looks very sickly.

[dashrendar4454]

Originally Posted by Vlajos

Yep, it won't be. He's one and done. If he even makes it to 2020. He looks very sickly.

He does? He has more energy than a lot of younger people it seems

[momonkey]

Originally Posted by FirebirdCamaro1220

That's interesting, because I pay income tax, and haven't gotten a tax refund in years, yet I'm still liberal. How do you explain that?

TOS prohibits an accurate response to your inquiry.

[Vlajos]

Originally Posted by dashrendar4454

He does? He has more energy than a lot of younger people it seems

Of course, he's grossly obese, and waddles when he walks. Look at his skin color. Very sickly. A walking heart attack to happen. Likely diabetic too.

[Vlajos]

Originally Posted by ELOrocks17

Well sure, if you count illegal aliens, and dead people who all seem to vote democrat...

Except the only voter fraud case from 2016 was a whack-o in Iowa that tried to vote twice for Donnie.

[trobesmom]

Originally Posted by in_newengland

I know people in their 80s who are still Democrats. Everyone I know in their 60s and 70s is a Democrat. No one got more conservative as they grew older. They vote too.

Another thing: people in these older age groups often move to the South when they retire--so you'll be getting these Democratic voters in the southern states.

Younger people, who are apparently Democrats too, are moving anywhere in the USA that they can get a job. Democrats everywhere!

Actually my FIL didn't become a Democrat until he was almost 80 and got with his same-aged girlfriend who was a life-long Democrat.

[Taratova]

Originally Posted by Bureaucat

So says Jonathan Chait after reviewing the latest generational survey by Pew Research, which was released today.



New Survey: Young Staying Liberal, Conservatives Dying Off

The most recent Pew Research Survey has more detail about the generational divide. It shows that the old saw that young people would naturally grow more conservative as they age, or that their Democratic loyalties were an idiosyncratic response to Barack Obama’s unique personal appeal, has not held. Younger voters have distinctly more liberal views than older voters:

Pew survey: Party ID by Generation:

Rather than growing more conservative as they grow older, millennials as a group are becoming more liberal.



Gen Xers are basically holding steady in partisanship. In 2014, GenXers favored Democrats by 9%; at this point in 2017 they are D+10.

On Trump Job Approval by Generation, Trump is underwater by 38%; Gen Xers by -21%; Boomers by -7%; Silents by -2%; overall -20 (37% approve with 57% disapprove)

Silent Generation (age 73 to 90) (11% of adult pop; 79% n/h white)
43% Democrat/57% Republican

Boomer Generation (age 54 to 72): 29% of adult pop; 72% n/h white
48% Democrat/46% Republican
Gen X (age 38 to 53 ): 26% of adult pop; 62% n/h white
48% Democrat/43% Republican

Millennials (age 22 to 37): 28% of adult pop; 56% n/h white
59% Democrat/32% Republican

Post-Millennials (age 18-21) 5% of adult pop; 53% n/h white

Generic 2018 Party Preference by Generation:

Silents: Democrats 45%/Republicans 51%
Boomers: Democrats 48%/Republicans 45-
Gen Xers: Democrats 51%/Republicans 41%
Millennials: Democrats 62%/Republicans 29%

By generation; % agreeing that “racial discrimination is the main reason many blacks cannot get ahead”:

Silents: 28%
Boomers: 36%
GenXers: 40%
Millennials: 52%

% saying that “immigration strengthens America”:

Silents: 47%
Boomers: 56%
Gen Xers: 66%
Millennials: 79%

The Generation Gap in American Politics | Pew Research Center

Regarding the early indications of the leanings of post- millennials, a PRRI survey at the time of the 2016 election showed that among respondents aged 15 to 24 years of age, 57% favored the election of Hillary Clinton. At the same time, the annual ci election by Scholastic Magazine of school children favored Clinton over Trump by 52% to 35%. In contrast to conservative beliefs, the post-millennial generation’s political orientation is still forming, since the lion ‘s share of that generation have not yet reached their political formative years or young adulthood, but the oldest members of that generation who have reached adulthood have shown no such sharp break with millennials.

Linked is a short podcast by Bill Frey of Brookings discussing the above.

https://www.brookings.edu/podcast-ep...nguage_slug=en

young people always lean liberal when young, as the get older , the get gain more insight and become Conservatives.

[TristramShandy]

Originally Posted by jazzy jeff

On the LGBT issue, a US study (not a UK study as per your link) shows only half of Gen Z identifying as "completely heterosexual".

https://www.jwtintelligence.com/2016...on-group-data/

I teach Generation Z kids in college right now. I don't know what to tell people if they think they're more conservative than the Millenials I taught for 15 years. Patently untrue - - and I teach at a Catholic university.

[FirebirdCamaro1220]

Originally Posted by momonkey

TOS prohibits an accurate response to your inquiry.

Or is it more like your theory is full of holes....