Millennials Up For Grabs?

[Beet]

Let's not forget that the demographic explosion of minorities skews heavily young and thus more likely to be Democratic. Minority births reached a majority in 2011 , and around 55-60% of today's under 18 group is minority. It is projected that the under 18 cohort will reach minority majority status later this decade.

The young vote will be skewing even more black and brown each election cycle , furthering their Democratic lean.

Unless the Republicans actually ... *gasp* ... reach out to minorities.

[Beet]

Let's not forget that the demographic explosion of minorities skews heavily young and thus more likely to be Democratic. Minority births reached a majority in 2011 , and around 55-60% of today's under 18 group is minority. It is projected that the under 18 cohort will reach minority majority status later this decade.

The young vote will be skewing even more black and brown each election cycle , furthering their Democratic lean.

Unless the Republicans actually ... *gasp* ... reach out to minorities.

They won't. It's much easier for them to become the white party.

Race-based political parties are disgusting. Politics should be about ideas and policies. One shouldn't be forced to become a leftist or a rightist based on the genes of birth. There's something inherently racist about it. I'm still hoping against hope that there is a place for all races in both parties...

[Beet]

Speaking of generations, I've always felt that the Baby Boomer generation (born 1946-1964) does not really match the counter-cultural associations given to it, given that, for instance, Mario Savio and other leaders of the Berkeley Free Speech movement were born 1942-44 and thus are technically a part of the Silent Generation. At the other end of the spectrum, someone born in 1964 and would have graduated college in 1986, e.g., later than the character Bud Fox in Wall Street. An alternative, more cultural definition of the generations:

1942-1960 : Baby Boomers
1961-1979: Generation X
1980-1998: Millennial
1999-: Homeland

This also matches up closer with the Strauss and Howe definitions, except I tried to make each one exactly 19 years.