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Not really
https://www.statista.com/statistics/319068/party-identification-in-the-united-states-by-generation/
5% less Republican and 11% more Dem is a pretty significant switch.
Side note:
I swear everytime I look something up by generation I see a different cutoff point.
Not sure when 1980 became the start of millennial. They really need to make the "Oregon Trail Generation" official. We're not the same as Gen X or millennials. Computers becoming prevalent is a better line in the sand than random birth years
Hey, I'm happy to be wrong. The latest numbers I saw a few months ago said differently, but it was talking about conservatism vs progressivism. I suppose you can be a social conservative and still vote for a Democrat.
And while I acknowledge that Dems aren't currently the progressives we need, they're still far better than the alternative. If those numbers are representative, Gen X seems to at least partly recognize the imminent danger Republicans represent.
Yeah, like I said it's weird and nonuniform how it's broken up.
That has 1965 as start date for Gen X. I wouldn't think of someone almost 60 years old as a gen Xer. And during the 90s they were in their 30s.
I feel like that's skewing the political affiliation of Gen X.
Millennials are those that became adults on or relatively close to the turn of the century, hence the name. If you played Oregon Trail in school, that's what you are. The next youngest is Gen-Z (Gen-X's kids), with the birth year starting at 1995. After that comes Alpha, the children of the millennials (being a millennial myself, that feels strange to say now. We gettin' old and sometimes I still don't feel like a responsible "adult". I still play video games at 41 for damn sakes. This shit's gettin' wierd.)
There's an approximately 15 year gap between the start of each generation.