Superking wrote:Garth wrote:There are also many more people going into higher education nowadays, which can play a part in shaping political opinions. We've gone from about 5% of young people going into higher education in the early 1960s, to about 15% through the 1970s-80s, growing to about 35% in the 90s, then increasing to around 50% currently.
The technology of today could have an influence too, with more of the population now communicating with people from other countries and cultures.
I’ve heard that in terms of the Brexit vote education was by the far the biggest dividing factor between leave and remain. I’m pretty sure it’s a high devider between conservative and labour voters too.
Yeah, although I don't know how they're graded and what the boundaries are.
I really wish pollsters would group the elderly better in this kinds of polls though. "65+" clumps together 90 year olds who may have served in the war, 80 year olds who grew up during the war, to baby boomers who were born over a decade after it ended!
It just mixes everyone deemed "of retirement age" as this single like-minded hive when it's a group of people who would have vastly different experiences and shaped differently during the most turbulent time in the 20th century. It's like saying 45 year olds have the same, general thoughts and beliefs as their millennial children.
I remember during the referendum a poll that broke that clump up a little and showed the progression to supporting leave as age increases up until people who were young adults during the second world war where it started to go back towards remain (can't remember figures, can't find poll). I don't know if that was a one off poll but that particular breakdown of the Brexit result is something I'd be interested to see.