Thread about book about generations. Gonna try updating it as I read through the book instead of Tweeting it all at the end. amazon.com/Generations-Di…
Rise of individualist phrases in books:
Different generations opinions on interracial marriage:
5.5% of silent generation men had a male sex partner, 2.3% of silent generation women had a female sex partner.
Young people got a lot more anxious during Covid:
The rise of "identity", and "unique"
% of Americans receiving the top 10 most common names:
Shrinking happiness gap between blacks and whites:
The rise of Boomer Republicans:
Depression by Income level and birth year:
The fall and rise of age of first sex:
The rise of people saying they are important:
Percentage of adults who are Republican, controlling for age:
Gen X, the lost generation:
The rise and fall of narcissism:
Narrative of poor millennials overblown:
Decline in marriage rate:
1/8 Millenial men have had gay sex:
Trends in depression by age group:
Decline in time spent socializing:
The first generation to think there are more than 2 genders:
The rise of Trans and non-binary:
Rise in FTM transgender:
Trans trend not limited to blue states:
Decline in support for free speech:
Rise of feeling lonely and left out:
Nearly 1/3 teenage girls are clinically depressed:
Emergency room admissions for self-harm:
Decline in healthy habits:
Rise in pessimism:
Smooth increase in people who think founders were villains:
Increase in 12th grade boys identifying as conservative:
Young Republicans are somewhat socially liberal:
Younger Republicans more likely to favor bigger government:
Most colleges have racially segregated graduation ceremonies:
High School Seniors care less about fashionable clothes:
Trends can change or reverse, but right now it looks like the future will be:
-Less white
-More politically left
-Less social, and less mentally healthy
-More risk averse
-More overweight
-More LGBT
-Less trustful of other people and major institutions
-More individualistic
3. DeAndre Harris clubs a UTR rally attendee in the back of the head, and famously gets beat down. He gets off free while some of the people who reacted got years in prison:
The victories Richard mentions here seem pretty minor. Abortion went from being illegal everywhere in the 60s to being legal everywhere the next decade.
Now the right's "victory" is that they merely get to control what happens in their own states and abortion is down about 6%. And of course as Richard has mentioned, abortion bans are so unpopular that even many red states don't vote for them. axios.com/2022/11/06/ame…
On guns there have been many states to liberalize their laws surrounding concealed carry, but national laws have enacted background checks and banned fully automatic weapons, and guns are still a heavily contentious issue unlike the ones where the left has won.
3/ Wanted to see how many important 20th century cases there were where if only white protestants voted, the result would be different. This was true for Miranda v AZ which I have discussed here: