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Some charts on generation warfare

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Carl Beijer
Feb 09, 2017
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I’ve written quite a bit about how age and generational conflicts are playing an increasingly important role in American politics – but it occurs to me that I’ve never actually spelled out how this is happening. So I’ve put together some charts.*

First, it’s worth revisiting a few polls that reveal age inflections in our political polarization:

On basical…

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