countries are the enemy, and that Britain Won the War (on its own?) It doesn't help from that point of view that one of the most prominent countries in the EU is Germany and that some people are conditioned to regard Germany as the permanent Enemy.
Also, a lot of people who have been treated badly by our own governments have been persuaded that the bad treatment came from the EU and/or immigration rather than from our own governments. I even heard of someone who was convinced that the EU had closed the British coal-mines! I can't be too smug about this, however, as years ago people, who used 'new EU laws that would make it easier for people to sue for dismissal after a certain time' as an excuse for making short-term contracts as short-term as possible, did convince me that the EU were harming employees in their ham-handed efforts to help them, and that we would be better off out. I changed my mind in the first instance due to the Blair-Bush collaboration, and feeling that we needed an EU counterbalance to the influence of occasional nutty American presidents (oh, and even more so now!!!), but also found out that almost everything I'd been told was a lie, and these people were referring to British laws.
Both age and relatively limited education seem to correlate with a Leave vote; and they go together to some extent, as education, at least in terms of quantity, has improved over the years. If the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton, perhaps the battle of the referendum was to some extent lost in the underfunded classrooms of the old secondary modern schools. Which May of course would, in essence, like to re-introduce.
Having said that, there were lots of middle-aged and older people on yesterday's march; perhaps more than young people!
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