Seperating race by rural/suburban/urban would be interesting, I’m 80% sure suburban Asian is more R than suburban white
Lumping all independents together is kind of misleading tbh.
Libertarians and Socialists/Greens are on opposite ends of the spectrum and are lumped together in the same category as this chart.
A little wierd that 18-24 is slightly more Republican than 25-29 💁♂️
The college student/college degree numbers are what is behind the Republicans’ attack on education.
One of my “favorite,” (if you can call it that) things about politics is that the closer or more contact you have with other human beings, the more progressive you are.
We get so lost putting people in buckets of race income class education etc etc etc, when the simple question of “how proximal are you to other human beings” is perhaps one of the most significant
The sad part? America’s youth dont vote.
How did the Republicans win if so many young Americans are democratic
Who cares. They don’t vote.
These 9% blacks voting for Rep: “…Also, I hate myself.”
It is interesting that younger kids are more conservative. I spend time with a lot of tweens and it is crazy how conservative they and their friends are. Especially for the boys, what they hear in school is very female-focused and liberal and the content that they watch in their spare time is very manosphere-focused and right wing. There is such a dichotomy in the content that they consume.
The rural number is very interesting to me. I grew up in a small town in Ohio and it felt like absolutely everyone was republican. Although I am a little older than the range.
This is why they are attacking the universities.
Not surprising. Democrats are the no-fun party.
At least that’s what my nephew said
Oh yeah? How about how many show up to vote in every local, state and federal election?
Republicans can see the writing on the wall and know they need to disenfranchise as many young and/or female voters as possible during the current term…
How were the suggests polled? Is this a true sampling of the US population across all states/socioeconomic classes/etc.?
9% for young blacks is absolutely wild
The question is are these all people who can vote. You can identify with something, but not be allowed to participate.
You all are focused on the college/no college while the main relevant thing that barely ever gets addressed is the Urban/Rural divide.
It’ll be interesting to see how this shifts after Trump crashes the economy as many youths are entering the workforce
These are all the youth attitudes that’re known to Harvahd
There may be many others but they haven’t been discovahd
All this to say:
– Independents seem to vote R more than D when given the choice between those 2
– Young people don’t vote as much as older demographics
Anything new to learn from this?
A lot of blue on that graph and yet… *gestures broadly @ USA*
Breakdowns like these perpetuate racism & other arbitrary divisions by implying that these categorizations are the ones worth caring about.
I want to see the *real* metrics: **How does this vary across ‘cat-people’ vs. ‘dog-people’?**
Whole lot of casual racism in this thread, crazy.
Did they not poll for Libertarians and Greens?
I’m rural, old, gun owner, Veteran, but liberal as hell!
Source? Because with so much of the country identifying as independent, I’d be very surprised for such small shares of this demographic to identify as independent.
Here’s pew, where as of 2017 millennials identified 44% as independent, where each younger demographic had larger shares of independent identification.
Did you write who they voted for, or were likely to vote for, as their party identification? Those are two different things. Here’s the party identification from the poll you wrote as source;
18 to 25 35% independent, 25 to 29 34% independent.
Provide an edit please, because as it is now, this post is grossly inaccurate.
It really sucks us young Americans are so bad at getting out to vote.
What does it matter? THEY DON’T VOTE!!!
I used to be so naive as a child growing up in California thinking that hate and bigotry would start to really dissipate as old people died off. I didn’t realize so many people my age would grow up to also be severely lacking in basic levels of empathy. I thought that even those in red states would have a good chance to resist Republican propaganda thanks to internet access. But the Internet has just made that propaganda even worse. Tragic.
![[OC] Party identification of American youth](https://www.europesays.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/xb0f8h20jeve1-1240x1024.png)
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Source: [Harvard Youth Poll](https://iop.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/2024-10/Harvard%20IOP%20Youth%20Fall%20Poll_Wave%202_Crosstabs.xlsx)
Tools: [Datawrapper](https://www.datawrapper.de/)
Tbh this should terrify the left.
Seperating race by rural/suburban/urban would be interesting, I’m 80% sure suburban Asian is more R than suburban white
Lumping all independents together is kind of misleading tbh.
Libertarians and Socialists/Greens are on opposite ends of the spectrum and are lumped together in the same category as this chart.
A little wierd that 18-24 is slightly more Republican than 25-29 💁♂️
The college student/college degree numbers are what is behind the Republicans’ attack on education.
One of my “favorite,” (if you can call it that) things about politics is that the closer or more contact you have with other human beings, the more progressive you are.
We get so lost putting people in buckets of race income class education etc etc etc, when the simple question of “how proximal are you to other human beings” is perhaps one of the most significant
The sad part? America’s youth dont vote.
How did the Republicans win if so many young Americans are democratic
Who cares. They don’t vote.
These 9% blacks voting for Rep: “…Also, I hate myself.”
Wonder what the admins problem is with colleges?
https://preview.redd.it/3d6pa1o4peve1.png?width=759&format=png&auto=webp&s=14e88e973e19b0dee69fdb43fca2194598532273
It is interesting that younger kids are more conservative. I spend time with a lot of tweens and it is crazy how conservative they and their friends are. Especially for the boys, what they hear in school is very female-focused and liberal and the content that they watch in their spare time is very manosphere-focused and right wing. There is such a dichotomy in the content that they consume.
The rural number is very interesting to me. I grew up in a small town in Ohio and it felt like absolutely everyone was republican. Although I am a little older than the range.
This is why they are attacking the universities.
Not surprising. Democrats are the no-fun party.
At least that’s what my nephew said
Oh yeah? How about how many show up to vote in every local, state and federal election?
Republicans can see the writing on the wall and know they need to disenfranchise as many young and/or female voters as possible during the current term…
How were the suggests polled? Is this a true sampling of the US population across all states/socioeconomic classes/etc.?
9% for young blacks is absolutely wild
The question is are these all people who can vote. You can identify with something, but not be allowed to participate.
[More information about the poll.](https://iop.harvard.edu/youth-poll/49th-edition-fall-2024)
You all are focused on the college/no college while the main relevant thing that barely ever gets addressed is the Urban/Rural divide.
It’ll be interesting to see how this shifts after Trump crashes the economy as many youths are entering the workforce
These are all the youth attitudes that’re known to Harvahd
There may be many others but they haven’t been discovahd
All this to say:
– Independents seem to vote R more than D when given the choice between those 2
– Young people don’t vote as much as older demographics
Anything new to learn from this?
A lot of blue on that graph and yet… *gestures broadly @ USA*
Breakdowns like these perpetuate racism & other arbitrary divisions by implying that these categorizations are the ones worth caring about.
I want to see the *real* metrics: **How does this vary across ‘cat-people’ vs. ‘dog-people’?**
Whole lot of casual racism in this thread, crazy.
Did they not poll for Libertarians and Greens?
I’m rural, old, gun owner, Veteran, but liberal as hell!
Source? Because with so much of the country identifying as independent, I’d be very surprised for such small shares of this demographic to identify as independent.
Here’s pew, where as of 2017 millennials identified 44% as independent, where each younger demographic had larger shares of independent identification.
[https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2018/03/20/1-trends-in-party-affiliation-among-demographic-groups/](https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2018/03/20/1-trends-in-party-affiliation-among-demographic-groups/)
Edit: Found your source;
Did you write who they voted for, or were likely to vote for, as their party identification? Those are two different things. Here’s the party identification from the poll you wrote as source;
18 to 25 35% independent, 25 to 29 34% independent.
Provide an edit please, because as it is now, this post is grossly inaccurate.
It really sucks us young Americans are so bad at getting out to vote.
What does it matter? THEY DON’T VOTE!!!
I used to be so naive as a child growing up in California thinking that hate and bigotry would start to really dissipate as old people died off. I didn’t realize so many people my age would grow up to also be severely lacking in basic levels of empathy. I thought that even those in red states would have a good chance to resist Republican propaganda thanks to internet access. But the Internet has just made that propaganda even worse. Tragic.
Independent is just closeted republican so…
https://preview.redd.it/zwfsr95qnfve1.png?width=1079&format=png&auto=webp&s=3ac2bb18576b98086f5adbba10bc8adefd2c4659
The organization really bothers me in this section
It should be organized
No College
College Student
Collage Degree
Or the inverse of that, I don’t really care, but the order they did it on feels very random
Hispanic should be below Mixed race because it’s not a race
haha, this is so clearly off.
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