Where Will Young Republicans Take the Party on Gay Marriage?
by SavvyRoo on Mar 1, 2015 | Views: 218 | Score: 0
| Republican voters that support the legalization of gay marriage | |
| 1928 - 1945 | 20 |
| 1946 - 1964 | 30 |
| 1965 - 1980 | 42 |
| 1981 - 1996 | 58 |
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, pewresearch.org
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A majority of Republican voters born after 1981 support the legalization of gay marriage, thus becoming the first generation of the GOP to support same-sex marriage at a rate over 50%. It seems that the GOP's role as a socially conservative party will come to lose this identity to its socially liberal, though economically conservative youth voters.