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Why the generation after millennials will vote Republican
The New York Post ^ | July 1, 2017 | Salena Zito

Posted on 07/01/2017 9:48:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

ERIE, PA — Max Bloomstine has a positive view of the nation’s growing diversity, believes the American dream is attainable (but doesn’t believe he’s entitled to it) and is more into the “we” instead of the “me.”

He is politically independent but leans conservative, attends church on a regular basis, and views his parents — not sports figures or celebrities — as role models.

Right now, though, two things weigh heavily on his mind: where to attend college next year (It’s either going to be the University of Pittsburgh or Rochester) and working on a summer job.

“I am a good entrepreneur when it comes to online gaming administration,” he said.

Say hello to Generation Z, the most recent to come of age. It is the youth of America, with its oldest members in their early 20s.

Sometimes referred to as the iGeneration, as they literally grew up with technology and social media in their hands, they are poised to dramatically change the cultural, economic and political landscape for some time to come.

Born between 1996 and 2010, they are very similar to their Gen X parents, that small, pragmatic generation that fell between the larger baby boomer and millennial generations.

“Gen Z actually like and trust their parents, who have been transparent with them, much more than any generation before,” said Jeff Brauer, a political-science professor at Keystone College in suburban Scranton, Pa., who has produced one of the first comprehensive studies on the next generation.

Analyzing research from Wright State University in Ohio on 1,200 Generation Z students at 15 colleges and universities across the country, Brauer also used exit polling from CNN and census data to draw his conclusions.....

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: generationz; genertionz; genz; gop; millennials; trends; trump; youth; youthvote; zito
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1 posted on 07/01/2017 9:48:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
...“I am a good entrepreneur when it comes to online gaming administration,”...

What does an "online gaming administrator" do?

2 posted on 07/01/2017 10:08:00 PM PDT by CurlyDave
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To: CurlyDave

No idea. I’m a baby boomer.


3 posted on 07/01/2017 10:08:53 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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I agree with this.

I'm one of the Gen-Xers. In the course of my life the past several years I've worked with and come to know many Millenials and "Generation Z" kids.

The ones just now coming into their own are in large part HORRIFIED at what those before them have done to America and they LOATHE the Millenials. They are determined to do better.

4 posted on 07/01/2017 10:10:46 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain (I don't give a damn about your feelings. Try to impress me with your convictions.)
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The colleges will work overtime to make sure Max abandons any faith in conservatism. He will be encouraged to resent his parents and to idolize instead failed social dreamers from 100 years ago. He will be assured that democrats have his best interests as their top priority.


5 posted on 07/01/2017 10:15:33 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves.)
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Our three kids (18 to 22) I guess are this iGeneration. Most of their classmates in liberal Seattle are liberals, but my kids are staunch Conservatives. And now that they are in college they have made friends that are also conservative.

Their mom and I are just barely still baby boomers I think. But yeah - they still like us and trust us. My daughter and I were at the gun range today as she is back from college. One of the guys quipped “And she still even wants to hang out with the old man!”


6 posted on 07/01/2017 10:19:55 PM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts FDR's New Deal = obama)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Smiling as I read this article.


7 posted on 07/02/2017 12:10:09 AM PDT by Ciexyz (I'm conservative & traditionalist.)
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Re: “Why the generation after Millennials will vote Republican”

Good luck with that political fantasy.

White young people vote about 55% Republican.

Non-white young people vote 80% Democrat.

Generation Z has fewer white voters than the Millennial generation.

8 posted on 07/02/2017 12:30:45 AM PDT by zeestephen
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Salena Zito continues to write as if she is talking with FReepers.

As for the beheadable millenials who think they’re the best and look down on the elderly, just tell the punks that they are old, too, and that a more stable and more capable generation is rising right behind them.


9 posted on 07/02/2017 12:44:40 AM PDT by Vision Thing (You see the depths of our hearts, and You love us the same...)
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What does an "online gaming administrator" do?

World of Warcraft? Mobile strike? Clash of Clans?

-PJ

10 posted on 07/02/2017 1:03:31 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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11 posted on 07/02/2017 2:10:42 AM PDT by GOP Poet
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The ones just now coming into their own are in large part HORRIFIED at what those before them have done to America and they LOATHE the Millenials.

Exactly - And is that not what so many of us GenXers thought about Baby Boomers in the late 80s/early 90s?
12 posted on 07/02/2017 2:11:34 AM PDT by ReaganGeneration2
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To: zeestephen
Good luck with that political fantasy.

Agreed, it's a stretch, and too early to tell. But the fact that there's even an opening for a Trump-inspired revival is encouraging.
13 posted on 07/02/2017 2:25:27 AM PDT by ReaganGeneration2
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I personally think we already are in a “Great Awakening” and a move away from “gummint as god”. It is just that the Brown Shirt Media absolutely are doing everything they can to suppress it because, at some level, they understand what is happening and it isn’t good for their side. This explains their vicious attacks on Trump and conservatives. Naturally, folks shy away from the behavior the BSM exhibits and so their lame attempts backfire. “Rebellious” youth will turn against them.


14 posted on 07/02/2017 2:31:17 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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The Millenials are in large part a result of the Clinton years and that was magnified by Obama's ultra-liberalism as they grew older. The new generation though, well, kids are smarter than we often give them credit for. They see how whacked Obama and his supporters were and what it cost America. And they are going to resolve to take America back and deny the Obamites any more legacy.

If the Sixties played a part in giving rise to the Reagan Revolution, the Gen-Zers are going to REALLY impress you.

15 posted on 07/02/2017 3:19:03 AM PDT by Ciaphas Cain (I don't give a damn about your feelings. Try to impress me with your convictions.)
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If the Sixties played a part in giving rise to the Reagan Revolution, the Gen-Zers are going to REALLY impress you.

I'll be impressed if they have 3 or 4 kids instead of "his and hers" dogs.

16 posted on 07/02/2017 3:24:10 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Kill: TWITTER, FACEBOOK, CNN, ESPN, NFL, NPR)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; Salena Zito

Good article. Thanks for posting.


17 posted on 07/02/2017 3:24:36 AM PDT by PGalt
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>I’ll be impressed if they have 3 or 4 kids instead of “his and hers” dogs.

They won’t. Once women’s liberation gets this advanced the birth rate never recovers without rolling back women’s rights which we’ve very unlikely to do.


18 posted on 07/02/2017 3:29:16 AM PDT by JohnyBoy
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Although I want to believe it, this prediction is likely to be just as nuts as the “Hispanics are natural conservatives” nonsense.


19 posted on 07/02/2017 3:38:39 AM PDT by DrPretorius
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

These people realize (or should realize) that the geriatrics now running government (the swamp) has SCREWED THEM ROYALLY (primarily the Baby Boom generation), by stealing $20 Trillion from them. As these people obtain political power, they are not going to be as supportive of the ‘old ways’ very much.


20 posted on 07/02/2017 4:16:15 AM PDT by BobL (In Honor of the NeverTrumpers, I declare myself as FR's first 'Imitation NeverTrumper')
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