I think another contributing factor is racism. Maybe not in this case specifically... but there have been studies that show when you inform white people that they will no longer be a majority in a few years, they get more conservative. Gen-X folks are gonna be particularly bad with this, I think. They've spent decades enjoying the benefits of white privilege and now that white supremacy is starting to crumble, they're getting more reactionary. Even if they're not even fully conscious of it themselves, they don't like POCs demanding equality. They rationalize it as being against "cultural marxism" or "SJWs", but the simple truth is they're used be being in a position of power and supremacy just because of their whiteness, and they can't handle taking that away.
Gen-X folks are gonna be particularly bad with this, I think. They’ve spent decades enjoying the benefits of white privilege and now that white supremacy is starting to crumble, they’re getting more reactionary.
It has nothing to do with generation though. Zoomers are just as racist as Xers/Boomers provided that you control for race.
Literally the ONLY reason young people are left is because young people are less white (due to immigration after the 1965 act).
If you only look at whites it's like watching a coelocanth or a ginkgo tree, literally nothing at all has changed over a 50 year generational span.
I'm remembering these stats from about 2 years ago, but the difference between white genZers and white Boomers was a 2% reduction in identifying as conservative. So it doesn't seem like the property ownership matters all that much in practice.
Actually I'm gonna try to find the source and post it
Can't help but wonder how many of those white zoomers are expecting to inherit even a modest amount of property, and therefore identify as such despite not currently owning any.
I think another contributing factor is racism. Maybe not in this case specifically... but there have been studies that show when you inform white people that they will no longer be a majority in a few years, they get more conservative. Gen-X folks are gonna be particularly bad with this, I think. They've spent decades enjoying the benefits of white privilege and now that white supremacy is starting to crumble, they're getting more reactionary. Even if they're not even fully conscious of it themselves, they don't like POCs demanding equality. They rationalize it as being against "cultural marxism" or "SJWs", but the simple truth is they're used be being in a position of power and supremacy just because of their whiteness, and they can't handle taking that away.
It has nothing to do with generation though. Zoomers are just as racist as Xers/Boomers provided that you control for race.
Literally the ONLY reason young people are left is because young people are less white (due to immigration after the 1965 act).
If you only look at whites it's like watching a coelocanth or a ginkgo tree, literally nothing at all has changed over a 50 year generational span.
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I'm remembering these stats from about 2 years ago, but the difference between white genZers and white Boomers was a 2% reduction in identifying as conservative. So it doesn't seem like the property ownership matters all that much in practice.
Actually I'm gonna try to find the source and post it
Can't help but wonder how many of those white zoomers are expecting to inherit even a modest amount of property, and therefore identify as such despite not currently owning any.