Just as my generation - Generation Y - came of age during the Bush the Younger administration and thus associate the Republican Party with the failures of Iraq and the Wall Street crash.
Because they came of age during the Truman administration and they associate the Democratic Party with the rise of the "red menace" in the late 1940s/early 1950s.
My parents were born in 1929 and 1932 and neither was ever a Republican. They lived through the war and like other American children, they contributed to the war effort. The fact that they attained adulthood during the Truman and Eisenhower years didn't override their childhood. Are you sure the heavily Republican cohort goes back as far as you're saying? Someone born in 1932 knew no president except for FDR until they were about 12.
The border is somewhere around 1933, essentially those with a strong memory of the end of WWII. Not that anecdotes are determinative in a conversation like this.
Why would people born during the Roosevelt administration tend to be Republicans?
Because they came of age in the Eisenhower years amidst McCarthyism and Pax Americana.
Just as my generation - Generation Y - came of age during the Bush the Younger administration and thus associate the Republican Party with the failures of Iraq and the Wall Street crash.
I guess those opposed to McCarthyism mostly voted for Adlai Stevenson twice, like my parents did?
Because they came of age during the Truman administration and they associate the Democratic Party with the rise of the "red menace" in the late 1940s/early 1950s.
My parents were born in 1929 and 1932 and neither was ever a Republican. They lived through the war and like other American children, they contributed to the war effort. The fact that they attained adulthood during the Truman and Eisenhower years didn't override their childhood. Are you sure the heavily Republican cohort goes back as far as you're saying? Someone born in 1932 knew no president except for FDR until they were about 12.
The border is somewhere around 1933, essentially those with a strong memory of the end of WWII. Not that anecdotes are determinative in a conversation like this.
No, granted.