A popular narrative suggests young people are liberal and getting more liberal. Thus, social media buzzed when a chart surfaced in spring that seemed to suggest that 12th-grade boys had become overwhelmingly conservative. 

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The Hill

Washington

District of Columbia

United States

High school boys are trending conservative

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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Washington Times

The Washington Times LLC

High school boys are twice as likely to be conservative as liberal, survey finds

A popular narrative suggests young people are liberal and getting more liberal. Thus, social media buzzed when a chart surfaced in spring that seemed to suggest that 12th-grade boys had become overwhelmingly conservative.

Nexstar Media Group

A new survey finds a plurality of male high school students, describe themselves as Conservative.

Herring Networks

San Diego

San Diego County

California

Survey: High School Boys Trending Right

The Daily Wire

Ben Shapiro

Nashville

Davidson County

Tennessee

High School Boys Becoming More Conservative While Girls Move Farther Left: Survey

A University of Michigan survey found that boys in their senior year of high school are almost two times more likely to identify as conservative than as liberal. However, for twelfth-grade girls, they are even more likely to consider themselves liberal than conservative.On the Monitoring the Future ...

The Blaze

Blaze Media

High school senior boys nearly twice as likely to be conservative as liberal: Survey

Girls in 12th grade, however, are increasingly liberal, with 30% identifying as such in 2022, compared to 12% who said they were conservative.

Just the News

High school boys trending conservative, bucking narrative of liberal youth

KDVR

Tribune Media

Denver

Denver County

Colorado

Social media buzzed when a chart surfaced in spring that seemed to suggest that 12th-grade boys had become very conservative. 

NewsNation

Chicago

Cook County

Illinois

KFOR-TV

Oklahoma City

Oklahoma County

Oklahoma

“Around 65 percent of boys were conservative while only around 31
percent of girls identified that way.”

High school boys are trending conservative

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