The latest figures suggest we're getting more comfortable with the idea, or perhaps that we simply give fewer shits than ever before. Either would be a step in the right direction. It's unclear whether they've included same-sex unions in the count, but as currently stated, this number is more than double what it was 25 years ago.
Image Credit: Wall Street Journal. The future: As for how this looks moving forward, studies have repeatedly shown that young people, especially those under 30, are significantly more amenable to interracial relationships than older adults, while college grads are more likely to have positive attitudes toward them than those with only a high school diploma.
What does this mean for Millennials? As a population composed largely of over-educated somethings, our generation is primed and expected to play a major role in populating this projected future America.
That goes double if you live in a Western state, where people intermarry at higher rates; Hawaii is winning at the moment, with 4 of 10 new marriages identifying as interracial. The documented belief in technological advancement extended from the laboratory half said an extinct species would be resuscitated through cloning to outer space half said evidence of life would be found elsewhere in the universe to the marketplace a small majority said gasoline-powered cars would go out of production.
In an exception to the pessimism about the environment, the poll found a ten-point drop in the percentage of respondents who say the earth will get warmer: from 76 percent in to 66 percent in Because the U.
More than twice as many respondents 42 percent said it would be more harmful than beneficial 16 percent. And there was ambivalence about immigration. Roughly a third of respondents said legal immigration had to be decreased to keep the economy strong, but a slightly higher proportion said legal immigration had to be kept at current levels; a quarter said it should be increased. A clear majority expected race relations to improve 68 percent.
Even more expected a Hispanic candidate to be elected president of the United States 69 percent. And 89 percent—the largest majority in the entire poll—said a woman would be elected president. Case in point is the graphic above: In previous generations, that "age pyramid" looked like a triangle, with population numbers thinning the older people got. Not so today. At the current rate, there will be almost as many people over 85 as children under 5 by Image Credit: Lera Blog. The result is a widely perceived inter-generational conflict, with more than one-quarter of Americans believing the political and ideological battles between young and old are some of our most pronounced.
With population numbers evening out across generations, these differences are predicted to grow increasingly fraught. From views on same-sex marriage to advocacy for marijuana legalization, Millennials have consistently proven more politically liberal and amenable to "activist government" than older generations. The same holds true with foreign policy, an understandable sentiment considering our coming of age amidst the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. If you need further proof, just look at the number of states that have legalized same-sex marriage since we became active in the political process.
Our collective political leanings also became apparent in recent presidential elections. Half of Millennials identify as political independents , but tend to support liberal issues, vote Democrat and responded overwhelmingly to the left-leaning rhetoric of Barack Obama — twice. How this holds for future elections is yet to be seen. But it's increasingly clear that conservative politicians have their work cut out securing our votes.
Generation X-ers fall around the national average, suggesting that religion — and the ideological baggage that comes with it — may be witnessing a decline. Also notable is the expansion of atheism and agnosticism, which 3 of 10 unaffiliated Millennials identify as subscribing to. And what would a list outlining the differences between old and young be without mentioning technology?
Millennials have often been called "digital natives," the first generation to grow up under the hopefully benevolent gaze of the Internet. Our primary mode of communication is social networking and, as a bonus statistic, we average Facebook friends, which seems a conservative estimate.
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