Some young people talk about the election
by digby
See why Southern Millennials stand behind @GOP candidate @realDonaldTrump‘s bid to #MakeAmericaGreatAgain.https://t.co/JdqLLZax1B— The Circus (@SHO_TheCircus) February 14, 2016
If that doesn’t scare you, this should:
Of course GOP turnout in New Hampshire was higher overall and between the two of them Clinton and Sanders probably beat the Republican field with young voters in nearly all white New Hampshire. But still — there are plenty of those young yahoos out there.
When it comes to explicit prejudice against blacks, non-Hispanic white millennials are not much different than whites belonging to Generation X (born 1965-1980) or Baby Boomers (born 1946-1964). White millennials (using a definition of being born after 1980) express the least prejudice on 4 out of 5 measures in the survey, but only by a matter of 1 to 3 percentage points, not a meaningful difference. On work ethic, 31 percent of millennials rate blacks as lazier than whites, compared to 32 percent of Generation X whites and 35 percent of Baby Boomers. (Question wording and methodology at the end).
It’s a big country and it’s full of white people of all ages, many of whom are not liberal.
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