… The independent Pew Research Center released a major report on the attitudes of the millennial generation last week, and here’s what it found: The millennials are decidedly liberal, especially on social issues such as immigration and same-sex marriage. That helps explain why Obama won their votes by a 16-point margin in 2012. …
Still, no generation is a monolith, and there’s one ancient divide that still runs through the millennials: race and ethnicity. In Pew’s polling, white and nonwhite millennials held measurably different views on some subjects, including Obama’s performance as president. Most nonwhite millennials approved of the president’s performance, but among white millennials, his approval rating was only 34% — about the same percentage Obama wins among older whites. CONT.
Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times