04-15-2019, 04:23 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-15-2019, 04:24 PM by Snowflake1996.)
I actually agree with most of your points. College attainment along with race/ethnicity are the likely lurking variables here as to why the generational shifts are where they are. I recall reading an article once showing that white millenials with no college degree were more partisan republican than their boomer white non college educated elders.
I guess this suggests that generational voting patterns can and do change with age. Xers definitely voted to the left of boomers in both 2016 and 2018. So if Xers were more conservative than boomers in their youth, this would mean Xers have gotten more liberal with age as boomers have gotten more conservative.
For the record I was the one who tried to connect Mark Blyth’s theory with S-H. Blyth himself doesn't believe in history repeating itself and is a very pragmatic quintessential Xer. I don’t think he’d disagree with your analysis on inflation either since he argues that the high interest rates of the 1970’s was a historical aberration.
I guess this suggests that generational voting patterns can and do change with age. Xers definitely voted to the left of boomers in both 2016 and 2018. So if Xers were more conservative than boomers in their youth, this would mean Xers have gotten more liberal with age as boomers have gotten more conservative.
For the record I was the one who tried to connect Mark Blyth’s theory with S-H. Blyth himself doesn't believe in history repeating itself and is a very pragmatic quintessential Xer. I don’t think he’d disagree with your analysis on inflation either since he argues that the high interest rates of the 1970’s was a historical aberration.
