A popular narrative suggests young people are liberal and getting more liberal. Thus, social media buzzed when a chart surfaced in spring that seemed to suggest 12th-grade boys had become overwhelm…

While many believe young people are becoming more liberal, data shows that 12th grade boys are nearly twice as likely to identify as conservative compared to liberal. Around 25% of high school seniors identify as conservative while only 13% identify as liberal. In contrast, the share of 12th grade girls identifying as liberal has risen to 30%. Many factors may contribute to this trend, including the rhetoric of Donald Trump which appealed to disaffected young men, and the focus of progressive movements on issues of gender and racial equality which some young men perceive as a “matriarchy.” However, most high school seniors claim no political identity, and many boys in high school do not actively discuss

  • ZzyzxRoad@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    It’s kind of silly to pretend like “liberal” and “conservative/right” don’t have corresponding political parties in the US. Maybe they’re not supposed to, but that’s not reality.

    • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      They do to an extent, but I was correcting that you can not agree with the part liberal or conservative because there are other options. Sure, when it comes time to vote you have to choose to vote for one of the two parties (in order to be counted), but just because the parties are bad shouldn’t change the way you describe your own political leanings.