A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.
Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.
Rules:
Related communities:
https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/voting-and-registration/p20-370.html
https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/how-groups-voted-1980
Boomers weren't the ones who elected Reagan, they were at most 35 at the time.
That's the president that started to fuck things up and it was just the same as usual, older people being more conservative, younger people not showing up to vote.
I will not stand for this Nixon erasure
Both your links gave me 404 errors
They were almost all able to vote in 1980 at 16- 34, and made up a large portion of the population then in 84 they were all able to vote and saw what actions he took the previous election and voted for him more…
Copypaste for you:
| 1980 | Group | Carter | Reagan | Anderson | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TOTAL | All Voters | Pct. | 41% | 51% | 8% | |
| SEX | Men | 51 | 38 | 55 | 7 | |
| Women | 49 | 46 | 47 | 7 | ||
| RACE | White | 88 | 36 | 56 | 8 | |
| African-American | 10 | 83 | 14 | 3 | ||
| Hispanic | 2 | 56 | 37 | 7 | ||
| AGE | 18-21 | 6 | 45 | 44 | 11 | |
| 22-29 | 17 | 44 | 44 | 11 | ||
| 30-44 | 31 | 38 | 55 | 7 | ||
| 45-59 | 23 | 39 | 55 | 6 | ||
| 60 & over | 18 | 41 | 55 | 4 | ||
| INCOME | <$10,000 | 13 | 52 | 42 | 6 | |
| $10 -14,999 | 14 | 48 | 43 | 8 | ||
| $15-24,999 | 30 | 39 | 54 | 7 | ||
| $25-50,000 | 24 | 33 | 59 | 8 | ||
| >$50,000 | 5 | 26 | 66 | 8 | ||
| UNION HOUSEHOLD | Yes | 26 | 48 | 45 | 7 | |
| No | 62 | 36 | 56 | 8 | ||
| REGION | East | 32 | 44 | 48 | 8 | |
| Midwest | 20 | 42 | 52 | 6 | ||
| South | 27 | 45 | 52 | 3 | ||
| West | 11 | 36 | 54 | 10 | ||
| PARTY | Democrat | 43 | 67 | 27 | 6 | |
| Republican | 28 | 11 | 85 | 4 | ||
| Independent | 23 | 31 | 56 | 13 | ||
| POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY | Liberal | 17 | 60 | 28 | 1 | |
| Moderate | 46 | 43 | 49 | 8 | ||
| Conservative | 28 | 23 | 73 | 4 |
Notes: Survey by CBS News and the New York Times. Sample of 15,201 voters as they left voting booths on Election Day, November 4, 1980. “Don’t know” and “other” responses not included.
And then in 1984 they voted for Reagan even more
Spend all of their own parents inheritance, leave nothing for their own kids, talk about how they had to work their way up from nothing.
I wouldn't call it peacing out, there's quite a lot of not-peace for that