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GulfCoast66

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9. Guess I am not following you.

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Sun Apr 23, 2017, 11:22 PM

Apr 2017

I don't necessarily blame this statistic strictly on their age. The fact is the older demographics are much higher percentage white. A whole lot of old white folks are really afraid that the nation no longer looks like their ideal. If a majority of the old folks in this country were minorities, Trump would have lost their vote.

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Political polarisation has grown most among the old [View all] applegrove Apr 2017 OP

Yes. It's not social media that is polarizing us - it's Fox and conserv. radio sharedvalues Apr 2017 #1

They add to the problem GulfCoast66 Apr 2017 #2

And that's who conservative media makes money from. sharedvalues Apr 2017 #4

Crazy right wing foundations... GulfCoast66 Apr 2017 #5

There Seems To Be A Dangerous Trend Towards Blaming The Seniors Me. Apr 2017 #3

We are a fact based community GulfCoast66 Apr 2017 #6

There Has Been A Lot Of That Lately Me. Apr 2017 #7

Guess I am not following you. GulfCoast66 Apr 2017 #9

Demonstrably so here. DU skews old and it's obvious in the bitter Bernie-hate posts Arazi Apr 2017 #8

That's kind of funny frazzled Apr 2017 #10

"will leave the whole country looking like Florida" - we're gonna get alligators with the seniors? PoliticAverse Apr 2017 #11