My girlfriend is part of the othee 30% 🙁

that I'm lucky my husband and I are on the same page, politically. It would be very hard if we weren't.

Not everyone, but in general most people develop attitudes that are more conservative as they get older.
That's why Trump does well with older men, who I'm sure vouched for being hippies at one time.

I am from Western PA part of "Pennsyltucky" and while I was never as bad as many around me, I did while young have some narrow minded beliefs. I grew up went to college, went into a field where I worked with many many people. It hasn't hurt that I myself was born with a disability and could never get over the attitudes of others to me. If I didn't want people thinking ill of me because of how I was born, then I couldn't think poorly of others for how they wore born. Life education and book education

have always been split down the middle as far as politices.

Half were activists/hippies/activist sympathizers back in the day, the other half were young repugs.

If you look at voting patterns over the last several elections you will see that hasn't changed.

How do you think Hillary got 3m more votes than trump? Older voters who vote more than younger voters, that's how, and they were boomers voting for the Democrat.

People are influenced by the political realities when they came of age as voters, the 18-21 year old range. If it is a conservative era then those people are inclined toward Republicans and it remains that way the rest of their lives. Right now the so-called Silent Generation born 1928-1945 is the oldest major block. They turned 18 with either an unpopular Democrat in office in Truman or extremely popular Republican in Eisenhower. Those people were never hippies, not in majority. They grew up predisposed to think like Republicans and it has remained that way. The Silent Generation are voting as every political historian predicted they would, going back five decades.

Somehow it became conventional wisdom that people become more conservative with age. Republicans certainly love to peddle the notion. But it is hardly true. There have been entire generations that are exceptions. In fact, right now it seems likely that the generation younger than millennials will be more conservative than millennials and probably remain that way.

Pew is always the best source for this type of research. They seemingly so it at least once per year. Here is one related link from a few years ago:

http://www.people-press.org/2015/04/30/a-different-look-at-generations-and-partisanship/


"As the Pew Research Center has often noted, it is not always the case that younger generations are more Democratic. Two decades ago, the youngest adults – Generation X – were the most Republican age cohort on balance, while the oldest – the Greatest Generation– were the most Democratic. In 1994, 47% of Gen Xers (then ages 18-29) identified with or leaned toward the Republican Party, while 42% identified as Democrats or leaned Democratic. And members of the Greatest Generation (then ages 67-81) — favored the Democratic Party over the GOP (49% to 42%)."

I've worked with a few of them as interns and volunteers on various campaigns. At a young age, some of them are already showing incredible leadership skills (Parkland kids).

They're not naive. They sense bullshit when they see it.

The studies from a couple of years ago near the end of the Obama presidency seemed to reveal it would be a more conservative generation. Remember, Obama's approval rating wasn't particularly high for a long time there. So anyone turning 18 and registering to vote for the first time in let's say mid 2014 would have had a Democratic president with approval in the low 40s. Obama didn't budge above 50% consensus again until something like March 2016. So that's at least a couple of years where I could understand that generation tilting slightly red.

Then no doubt many of them got caught up in the Trump hoopla, because even though Obama's approval was rising in 2016 the de facto head of the Democratic Party becomes Hillary with her challenged approval rating, and so much crap negativity.

From early 2017 -- born 1999 -- until now, and certainly at least until Trump leaves office, I would be shocked if that's not a pro-Democratic block. Obviously I always look at the 18th birthday. Not a perfect reference point, but close enough.

Our nation would be far better off if millennials were as regular voters as their grandparents.