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Will Millennials Ever Vote Republican?

December 12, 2017 By E.J. Smith - Your Survival Guy

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The old saying “if you’re not a liberal when you’re young you have no heart, and if you’re not a conservative when you’re old you have no brain,” has held up pretty well through the decades. Older voters tend to vote more conservatively, and younger voters tend to vote more liberally. The definitions of those words changes through time, but the trend remains the same. Cato Institute fellows Erik Goepner and Trevor Thrall say this time might be different. Millennials may leave their “critical periods” with such a distaste for the GOP, they may never decide to vote Republican. They write:

A decreasingly white electorate is less likely to vote Republican. Today, only 11 to 26 percent of non-whites identify as Republicans. This hasn’t mattered much historically since the Republican Party typically attracts a much higher share of the white vote than the Democratic Party, and because as late as 1990 the voting public was 90 percent white. The proportion of white voters, however, shrunk to 74 percent this past presidential election. Birthrates and immigration will continue the downward trend. Just 56 percent of millennials are white, Gen Z is even less white at 51 percent, and the Census Bureau projects that by 2020 more than half of all American children will be minorities.

Rising numbers of immigrants will also provide a test for Republicans. Eleven percent of Millennials are either immigrants or the children of immigrants, compared to just five percent for Baby Boomers. And for the next 50 years, demographers predict immigrants and their children will account for 88 percent of America’s population growth.

Efforts to build a big, beautiful wall, rescind DACA, and ban members of Muslim-majority countries will only make things harder with young Americans (and foreign-born voters). So far 78 percent of millennials oppose Trump’s wall, a majority believe ending DACA is the wrong thing to do, and two-thirds did not support the president’s travel ban. In each instance, millennials opposed Trump’s position in higher numbers than any other generation. As time goes on, it will become less obvious that some of these policies came from the president versus the party he leads. For millennials and Gen Z, especially, the party and its leader will blur into one.

The Republican Party also suffers from a widening education gap. Clinton bested Trumpby 5 and 22 percentage points respectively with college graduate and postgraduate voters. This is a problem because, as researchers have noted, millennials are on track to be the “most educated generation in American history.”

Finally, Americans’ steady abandonment of religion threatens one of the Republican Party’s most important bulwarks. About 80 percent of white evangelical voters voted for Trump, but their numbers are shrinking. The faithfulness of white evangelical voters has masked their declining numbers, but that won’t help forever. As recently as 2008, white evangelicals comprised one-fifth of the population. By 2014 that had shrunk by 3 percentage points; and among the under-30 crowd, only one in 10 identify as white evangelicals.

In short, if you thought Trump and Moore were the Republican Party’s biggest problems, think again. Millennials already are America’s largest generation, and their influence will only increase over the coming decades. Many of them, and the younger Gen Z that follows, are suffering through the president’s antics during their most impressionable years. Their views of the Republican Party will be difficult to rehabilitate.

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E.J. Smith is Founder of YourSurvivalGuy.com, Managing Director at Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd., a Managing Editor of Richardcyoung.com, and Editor-in-Chief of Youngresearch.com. His focus at all times is on preparing clients and readers for “Times Like These.” E.J. graduated from Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, with a B.S. in finance and investments. In 1995, E.J. began his investment career at Fidelity Investments in Boston before joining Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd. in 1998. E.J. has trained at Sig Sauer Academy in Epping, NH. His first drum set was a 5-piece Slingerland with Zilldjians. He grew-up worshiping Neil Peart (RIP) of the band Rush, and loves the song Tom Sawyer—the name of his family’s boat, a Grady-White Canyon 306. He grew up in Mattapoisett, MA, an idyllic small town on the water near Cape Cod. He spends time in Newport, RI and Bartlett, NH—both as far away from Wall Street as one could mentally get. The Newport office is on a quiet, tree lined street not far from the harbor and the log cabin in Bartlett, NH, the “Live Free or Die” state, sits on the edge of the White Mountain National Forest. He enjoys spending time in Key West and Paris. Please get in touch with E.J. at ejsmith@yoursurvivalguy.com
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