highschool-senior/apgov/Changes_Ideology.md

• Generational Effect

  • events that influence an entire generation
  • great-depression FDR -> lean democrat
  • cold war Ronald Regan -> lean Republican

• Political Events

  • Watergate scandal -> distrust in government

• Lifecyle Events

  • young -> older
    • people may lean another way
    • student debt
    • taxes are too big

• Milenials

  • tech-savvy
  • are more open to other peoples

• Gen X

• Baby Boombers

  • think america is great but not as much as silent gen
  • 1946-64
  • post ww2
  • cold war

• Silent Generation

  • 25-45
  • red scare