SocraticGadfly: Once again, demographics is not destiny

September 03, 2021

Once again, demographics is not destiny

I've said that more than once, mainly on the growth of Hispanics here in Texas, to Texas Democratic voters, and even more the Texas Democratic Party and jefe Gilberto Hinojosa, who somehow remains in power despite a track record of losing.

It's also true about age, as Five Thirty Eight points out on a profile piece about pot legalization supporting, pro-choice, climate change is real Gen Z ... Republicans. Trump voting Republicans, even.

That said, as the piece reveals, they differ from their Dem-voting peers, and often strongly, on every socioeconomic issue. And, per the last graf of the piece, even though they're similar to young Dems on laughing at "canceling cancel culture," they still appear unsure of themselves as white, or male, or both vis-a-vis today's social political environment.

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