[lbo-talk] kids alright

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Apr 3 19:47:01 PDT 2011


On Apr 2, 2011, at 10:16 AM, SA wrote:


> On 4/2/2011 10:04 AM, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
>> A couple of years ago I read an analysis claiming that today's young were the most left cohort - not just on social issues but economic ones as well (and sorry for perpetuating that questionable opposition) - in the history of polling. I can't find the reference now though. But this is really heartening - because people don't get more conservative as they age.
>
> Yeah, I've read things like that in a few places. The only one I remember off the top of my head was this one:
>
> http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/05/millennial_generation.html

Actually I queried Ruy Teixeira (the co-author of that CAP thing) about it the other day, and he denied authorship of what I'd heard. So it must have been somewhere else.

Doug



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