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Vidal

(642 posts)
Sat Dec 16, 2017, 01:48 PM Dec 2017

41 percent of white millennials voted for Trump

This article says it was because of racial resentment and they thought Trump would help them economically.

"A white millennial with a high school education and strong perception that whites are losing ground to other groups through no fault of their own was almost certainly a Trump voter."

Well, I think that has changed since the election. Many more millennials are against Trump now, as seen in Virginia and Alabama.

Interesting article.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/12/15/racial-resentment-is-why-41-percent-of-white-millennials-voted-for-trump-in-2016/?utm_term=.e7dfde5a3d5a

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41 percent of white millennials voted for Trump (Original Post) Vidal Dec 2017 OP
Greed. C_U_L8R Dec 2017 #1
Yup,had Wellstone ruled Dec 2017 #2
Yep, know a few who did the same. Disgusting. Hoyt Dec 2017 #3
Like to know who they voted for their first time benld74 Dec 2017 #4
He will serve them well lunasun Dec 2017 #5
So 59% of millennials did not vote for Trump Freethinker65 Dec 2017 #6
This Hekate Dec 2017 #9
But they went big for Doug Jones RandomAccess Dec 2017 #7
sad uponit7771 Dec 2017 #8
 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
2. Yup,had
Sat Dec 16, 2017, 02:12 PM
Dec 2017

several Family members do the same,and now with all new Income Tax provisions,they are bitching to high hell.

Bottom line,they really think the US Government can function on Bullshit.

benld74

(9,904 posts)
4. Like to know who they voted for their first time
Sat Dec 16, 2017, 03:40 PM
Dec 2017

Since definition birth year stops at 2004.
Would make oldest Mill 35

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
5. He will serve them well
Sat Dec 16, 2017, 04:09 PM
Dec 2017

Oh and stop with the we just have to wait for an older generation to die out and all the racists and greedy will pretty much be gone
41% is not a small group
 

RandomAccess

(5,210 posts)
7. But they went big for Doug Jones
Sat Dec 16, 2017, 06:13 PM
Dec 2017
According to exit polls, Jones won voters aged 18 to 29 by 60% to 38%. This was a dramatic turnaround from the 2012 election, when Barack Obama lost Alabama voters aged 18 to 29 to Mitt Romney by four percentage points.


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/16/alabama-senate-election-doug-jones-roy-moore-donald-trump
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