Those claiming Dems should retreat on racial justice aren't hard-headed realists, they're pushing against the electoral tide rather than leaning into it. The story of Gen Z isn't about racist backlash or red-pilled young men. It's the most racially progressive generation in American history. 🧵
Even the headline makes me happy.
Those claiming Dems should retreat on racial justice do not share true Democratic values and might as well be MAGA.
Interesting that rates for college educated and no religiously affiliated are lower across all age cohorts. Says something about the value of education and the lack of value of religious affiliation.
This matches my experience interacting with wonderful Gen Z people every day. Glad to see I’m not crazy.
Sounds like cope and pandering horseshit given how Gen Z swung towards Trump vs. 2020.
Trump is openly racist, sexist and fascist.
As it should be. As we all should be--learning from gross mistakes for centuries.
Now is the perfect time to end our own special brand of apartheid. None of us are free or empowered unless we all are. Remove the barriers now.
Those claiming Dems should retreat on racial justice also claimed Dems should ignore, deflect and overgeneralize when asked about trans people, too.
They're called centrist billionaire funded DC think tanks and consultants.
It's a losing strategy for all of us.
what were the two items?
remind me, did anything important happen regarding race in the 1960s
Yup. Gaslighting 101 from these people always. Always with the "don't talk about race" while the folks at The Top keep making laws that make it about race. Smh.
The changepoint around 1965 is wild (complimentary)
Honestly this graph is terrible. It appears everything is trending upward and it takes a min to realize the great story it’s telling (from former ad exec)
This is very interesting, thank you.
Also. I’ve been a Dem for decades. And if your retreating on racial justice. You’re not a dem. You’re a piece of shit.
The redpill crowd aren't racist they're misogynist.
Establishment Democrats realize that if they let the young'uns win on racial and trans justice, the next step will be financial justice and all their wealthy backers will start to feel the pinch.
Could be these results indicate age not generation. That is, levels of racial resentment might change as people age. IE would you have gotten similar results 10 or 20 years ago?
They're garbage people who should be shamed out of existence.
One might suspect that there was something to it other than "realism".
This is heartening data. For some time I've held hope that generational change will deliver us from our crippling racism, but my confidence had been weakened by the media trends that you reference.
Looks like my birth year (1965) is at or near the worst, across most of the graphs. Bleh.
Maybe ask men about gender resentment. Then, you can say something about red-pilled males. Not before. Thems the facts. I don't make them.
If a Democrat "consultant" says something, do the opposite, it seems...
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this is a terrible time-series. who the hell would ever put the older dates on the right? hope somebody gets fired for this.
Yes. But who is voting? Detached young white men with a grudge
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All my 20 something grandchildren have multi ethnic friends. Just saying . . .
They are trying to cater to demographics that are sewn up because "young people don't vote", rather than giving young people an option they'd vote for (see: Mamdani, Zohran).
Leaning IN is exactly what Dems need to do.
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Dems always ready with an excuse to not do the right thing and a reason to do the wrong thing.
Thanks for a great thread. Question: Is there any data for Jewish respondents? I only see Catholic, Protestant and Unaffiliated in the graph for religion.
Who's recommending that Dems retreat on racial justice? And what policies or platform points would that involve?
ok, but these graphs are horrible.
This is great info but using time-series style lines is a choice
Yes. And BLESS
Right is right. Everything else is just noise.
Once again proving west is superior.
Why are these charts so poorly designed?
In most of my friend groups of fellow Gen-Zers I’m still on speaking terms with, Trump is about as popular as cancer. Enough of the Overton Window endlessly ratcheting to the right.
Winning blueprint for Dems next 2 cycles: treat 2024 as a turnout problem, stop chasing “Biden Republicans,” go loud on abortion, democracy, wages & housing, and pour money into year-round local organizing that turns Gen Z & working-class nonvoters into regular voters. Charismatic male P/VP can's.
You can totally see generation lead in these charts. Not the most important factor obviously, but it’s there
If a graph is going to be titled “by birth year”, then putting earlier years on the right is either incompetence or deliberately misleading. If what they want to convey is “by age”, do that.
These charts feel backwards fwiw
Confused til I zoomed in to see younger is left. My mind assumes we'd see the trend shifting toward tolerance over time, left-ro-right
Excellent data regardless!
2/🧵 New piece with @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social in @NewRepublic: We analyzed 60,000+ respondents in the 2024 Cooperative Election Study. Gen Z has the lowest racial resentment of any generation. The generational shift overwhelms the education divide that supposedly defines modern politics.
Stop panicking: They are the most progressive generation ever, especially on race. If that surprises you, you’ve been listening to the wrong story.
Thanks for writing this!
Millennials + Gen Z will be 54% of eligible voters in 2028. Dems need young voters in order to win, and the most effective way to boost youth turnout is to nominate the candidate that young people are most excited about. Nothing else is as effective.
