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Republicans Lost the House Due to Millennials Moving to Suburbs
American Thinker ^ | 11/30/2018 | Chriss Street

Posted on 11/30/2018 6:34:37 AM PST by SeekAndFind

Republicans lost control of the House of Representatives this year due to a big jump in liberal Millennials moving to the suburbs to buy houses, start families, and begin the transition into conservatives.

The latest Ernst & Young LLP, Research regarding the changing preferences for the Millennial age group of 18 to 34 for the period from June 2016 to June 2018, found the percentage of older Millennials between the ages of 28 to 31 that owned a home spiked from 27 to 47 percent, and the percentage of younger Millennials between the ages of 20 and 23 that lived with their parents plunged from 63 to 36 percent.

Despite Millennials increasingly holding full-time jobs and the percentage feeling positive about the economy spiking from 28% in 2016 to 41 percent in 2018, only one-third believe their standard of living will be better than their parents in the long term.


A major reason for Millennial angst about the future is that 50% are paying off or plan to take out student loans. About 80 percent say student debt has forced them to delay home ownership. This burden may explain why Millennials’ median age for a first marriage has jumped by seven years since 1960 to 27.4 for women and 29.5 for men. As of result, only 38 percent of Millennials versus 50 percent of U.S. adults are now married.

Over the 40 percent of the 425 House of Representatives seats were predominantly in suburban districts in 2018, according to a CityLab Density Analysis. Of the 74 Republican suburban seats, Democrats claim liberal “Blue Wave” realignment caused Republicans to lose 38 suburban seats, according to the New York Times.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: congress; gop; millennials; suburbs
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1 posted on 11/30/2018 6:34:37 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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MORE DEMOGRAPHIC STATS:

The Democrats strength has always been in the cities, but most of the House seats they flipped were by small vote margins and tended to be urban edge suburbs in the Midwest, near Washington D.C., and Orange County, CA, according to the NY Times.

Ernst & Young found that a 38 percent majority of Millennials now live in the suburbs, while another 37 percent live in cities. In the 10 years from 2007 to 2017, Millennials’ median income rose by 17 percent, but median housing costs for cities and suburbs rose by 29 percent. Ernst & Young expects a big relocation of Millennials to small towns and rural communities where housing costs rose by 16 percent over the same period, slightly less than Millennials’ income growth.

By delaying their launch into the adult responsibilities of marriage, mortgages, babies, and paying taxes by about seven years, the percentage of Millennials voting Democrat rose since 2010 from about 53 percent to 59 percent; while those voting Republican fell from 38 to 32 percent, according to Pew Research.


2 posted on 11/30/2018 6:35:48 AM PST by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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To: SeekAndFind

That’s not very hive mind small footprint of them.


3 posted on 11/30/2018 6:38:48 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committtee)
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To: SeekAndFind
Repugnicants lost because there's not enough difference between them and the Dumbocrats.

Buncha PC Babies crying for their globalist mommy.

4 posted on 11/30/2018 6:41:19 AM PST by rawcatslyentist ("All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing")
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To: SeekAndFind

GOPe arm of the UniParty deliberately tossed the House to the RAT arm of the UniParty in order to do the dirty work of bringing down a so-called GOP POTUS. GOPe side didn’t want the visuals of doing it so nothing to see here, folks. Just blame it all on demographic changes.
Elections mean nothing anymore except to make the “unwashed masses” feel like they’re doing something....they’re not.


5 posted on 11/30/2018 6:43:02 AM PST by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Oh BS. They lost because Ryano and the RINOs threw the election. The candidates that ran on MAGA with Trump did great for the most part.


6 posted on 11/30/2018 6:43:35 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Despite Millennials increasingly holding full-time jobs and the percentage feeling positive about the economy spiking from 28% in 2016 to 41 percent in 2018, only one-third believe their standard of living will be better than their parents in the long term.”

That’s true, but it’s not because of what they think. It’s because of how they vote. When your vote for socialism, everybody standards of living goes down. And everybody’s opportunities are wiped out.

Overall, the Millennials have been dumbed down to the point where they can’t even think for themselves.


7 posted on 11/30/2018 6:44:42 AM PST by CottonBall (T;hank you , Julian!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Let the GOPe hack gas-lighting continue...


8 posted on 11/30/2018 6:44:50 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: SeekAndFind

If you have a clueless daughter living at home after her brainwashing at a Leftist university, she is likely to have voted for Democrats, thus canceling your vote for Republicans. Get her out of her childhood room and make her pay her own way. She may buy a clue, along with her other purchases.


9 posted on 11/30/2018 6:46:48 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: central_va

The young millennials moved out but they come home for every bump in the road. They don’t even know how to read their pay stub and see the tax rate dropped.


10 posted on 11/30/2018 6:48:42 AM PST by cnsmom
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To: CottonBall

They don’t want to hear anything that goes against what they want to believe in the group think bubble.


11 posted on 11/30/2018 6:51:49 AM PST by cnsmom
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They moved back in with their parents.


12 posted on 11/30/2018 6:57:39 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: SeekAndFind

No. Republican lost the House because in the last 150 years you can count on one hand the number of times the party of the sitting president didn’t lose seats in the midterms. The mushy middle that actually decides elections goes against the president in midterms, it’s what they do.


13 posted on 11/30/2018 6:59:09 AM PST by discostu (Every gun makes its own tune.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Millennials who were indoctrinated in public schools starting in kindergarten and all through higher education. The liberals long term plan coming to fruition. Those millennials. The ones with no critical thinking.


14 posted on 11/30/2018 6:59:44 AM PST by robel
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liberal Millennials moving to the suburbs to buy houses, start families, and begin the transition into conservatives.

Only 2/3 correct. I see absolutely no evidence that they are transitioning into Conservatives anytime soon.

Many of them are now in their 30's. I had completely given up on any Leftist impulse I might have had by age 26.


15 posted on 11/30/2018 7:00:46 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: robel

I continue to maintain that the only reason the country is not Socialist is that not enough of us have assumed room temperature yet.


16 posted on 11/30/2018 7:01:44 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: rawcatslyentist

Confused metros seduced by power desiring hotties, developing a basic financial base and exercising political power with no political substance ..... except the indoctrinated socialism from public school.


17 posted on 11/30/2018 7:02:00 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true; I have no proof .... but they're true.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The GOP lost the house because they are a bunch of RINOs.

No more complicated than that.


18 posted on 11/30/2018 7:03:32 AM PST by chris37
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To: discostu
No. Republican lost the House because in the last 150 years you can count on one hand the number of times the party of the sitting president didn’t lose seats in the midterms. The mushy middle that actually decides elections goes against the president in midterms, it’s what they do.

If the HOR had passed border funding and done nothing else they'd still be the majority.

19 posted on 11/30/2018 7:07:32 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: SeekAndFind

So, the colleges are not only brain washing them with propaganda, they ate using economic pressure.
Instead of blaming the institutions of “higher learning” for their economic woes, they blame Trump.

I still think a lot of lost seats in close races was due to MASSIVE VOTER FRAUD.


20 posted on 11/30/2018 7:10:04 AM PST by ZULU (Jeff Sessions should be tried for sedition.)
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