The Pew Research center has updated their terrific graphic showing how each generation of Americans have voted, relative to the rest of the country, over the last two decades:
As you can see, those who came of voting age under FDR, Nixon, Clinton, Bush 43 and Obama have tended to vote more Democratic compared to the nation at large, while Americans who reached majority while Truman, Ike, JFK, LBJ, Ford, Carter, Reagan, and Bush 41 have leaned Republican. Most cohorts have remained fairly consistent in their choices over time, though that 1960s contingent—perhaps surprisingly, or perhaps not—seems to have grown more conservative in recent years.
One thing this chart doesn’t show, though, is intensity of preference. So Clinton kids like myself have typically gone for Democrats, but by what margin? For that, you have to drill down further, and Pew offers the example of our most recent presidential election, the 2012 contest between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. Head below the fold for another compelling graphic.
How has your generation voted?
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