High school boys are trending conservative
- According to a federal survey, 12th-grade boys in the US are almost twice as likely to identify as conservative compared to liberal.
- The political leanings of young men have remained relatively stable over the past two decades, while young women are increasingly identifying as liberal.
- The conservative trend among 12th-grade boys may be influenced by factors such as the rhetoric of former President Donald Trump and the appeals made by conservative figures on social media and gaming platforms.
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Are teenage boys in the US becoming more conservative – or more dangerously apathetic?
Social media is abuzz with a survey showing 12th-grade boys are twice as likely to identify as conservative. The reality is a little more complicatedThe kids are all (leaning to the) right. Well, teenage boys in the US are, anyway. Social media was recently abuzz with a survey that shows 12th-grade boys (who are aged 17 or 18) are nearly twice as likely to identify as conservative v liberal. Their female counterparts, meanwhile, lean overwhelmin…
High school boys are twice as likely to be conservative as liberal, survey finds
The annual Monitoring the Future survey, a scholarly project that dates to the 1970s, found that in each of the past three years, just 13% of those boys self-identified as liberal or very liberal.
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