High school boys are trending conservative (thehill.com)

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While many believe young people are becoming more liberal, data shows that 12th grade boys are nearly twice as likely to identify as conservative compared to liberal. Around 25% of high school seniors identify as conservative while only 13% identify as liberal. In contrast, the share of 12th grade girls identifying as liberal has risen to 30%. Many factors may contribute to this trend, including the rhetoric of Donald Trump which appealed to disaffected young men, and the focus of progressive movements on issues of gender and racial equality which some young men perceive as a "matriarchy." However, most high school seniors claim no political identity, and many boys in high school do not actively discuss

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[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 0 points 1 year ago

You also have issues where high-school educated men have not seen any major benefits to any typical liberal or conservative ideology within the past generation.

On the conservative end, the jobs that the men would have gone into have seen wages and benefits stagnate or drop.

On the liberal end, the status of white men in society has dropped to a more level playing field with class status or wealth being a more defining factor, something which they don't have.

Alt-right conservatives are addressing the economic issues by restricting the work force (anti-immigration) and increasing the jobs in resource extraction (trashing all environmental laws). On social issues, the alt-right head of family is the man.

[-] Aesthesiaphilia@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

Leftists could address these issues better by supporting unions more.

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