Younger Americans are more diverse than older Americans, certainly, and more likely to hold liberal political views. (They are also less likely to be members of political parties.) One effect of this is that the Republican Party skews older than the Democratic Party and, therefore, that boomers make up more of the GOP than the Dems though the generation itself is fairly evenly divided.
What did the overlap of White Americans, Republicans and baby boomers look like? So, using data from the 2020 edition of the American National Election Studies, Gallup and the Census Bureau, I was able to create this Venn diagram.
What I love about this diagram (seen on p. 126, if you have a copy of the book) is that it represents a lot of information very simply. It is admittedly hard to parse percentages or segments from overlapping circles, but you clearly get a sense that a lot of boomers are White Republicans (4 in 10) and that the GOP is heavily White. A quarter of the party is White baby boomers, per this analysis.
Wamarekani vijana ni tofauti zaidi kuliko Wamarekani wazee, bila shaka, na uwezekano mkubwa wa kushikilia maoni ya kisiasa ya huria. (Huenda pia hawawezi kuwa washiriki wa vyama vya siasa.) "Mfano mmoja ni kwamba chama cha Republican kina umri mkubwa kuliko chama cha Democratic, na kwa hivyo ""boomers"" hufanyiza zaidi ya chama cha Republican kuliko chama cha Dems, ingawa kizazi hicho kimegawanyika kwa usawa." Ni nini kilichotokea kwa Wamarekani weupe, Republican na baby boomers? Kwa hivyo, kwa kutumia data kutoka kwa toleo la 2020 la Mafunzo ya Uchaguzi wa Kitaifa wa Amerika, Gallup na Ofisi ya sensa, niliweza kuunda mchoro huu wa Venn. "Kile ninachoipenda kuhusu mchoro huu (kuonekana kwenye ukurasa wa 126, ikiwa una nakala ya kitabu) ni kwamba inawakilisha habari nyingi kwa urahisi sana.""" Ni vigumu sana kutofautisha asilimia au sehemu kutoka kwa duru zinazozunguka, lakini unaelewa wazi kwamba wengi wa boomers ni Republican weupe (4 katika 10) na kwamba GOP ni nyeupe sana. robo ya chama ni White baby boomers, kwa mujibu wa uchambuzi huu.