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A Wider Ideological Gap Between More and Less Educated Adults
Democrats and Republicans more ideologically divided than in the past
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- A Wider Ideological Gap Between More and Less Educated Adults
- Adults with postgraduate experience most likely to have consistently liberal political values
- Growing shares of postgrads, college grads are consistently liberal
- Growing minority holds consistent ideological views
- Democrats and Republicans more ideologically divided than in the past
- Highly educated Democrats are more likely than those with less education to have liberal political views
- More than half of Democratic postgrads have down-the-line liberal views, up from roughly a third in 2004
- More Millennials express liberal than conservative attitudes; among Boomers and Silents, the opposite is true
- Wide ideological generation gap among Republicans; more modest differences among Democrats
- Since 2004, large increases in the shares of Boomer and Silent Republicans expressing consistently conservative political attitudes
- Growing partisan gaps in most areas, from immigration to ‘peace through strength’
- Wider education differences among Democrats than Republicans on many
- Sharp generational divides in GOP on homosexuality, ‘peace through strength’