Will Generation Z be more conservative?

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I'm confused, is this suggesting that Gen Z is more socially conservative?  I figured that Gen Z would be nationalistic but very socially liberal/irreligious.

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I'm confused, is this suggesting that Gen Z is more socially conservative?  I figured that Gen Z would be nationalistic but very socially liberal/irreligious.

There's some statistic that shows 44% of gen z attends church. I'm not sure if the number is that high though. Many are probably forced to go by their parents though.

One thing I have noticed is that religiosity and politics is almost flipped with this generation. The conservatives are more culturally conservative/nationalist and secular whereas the liberals see Jesus as a socialist/liberal type figure and their faith reinforces their economic views

Part of the reason for higher church attendance could be immigration.

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I'm confused, is this suggesting that Gen Z is more socially conservative?  I figured that Gen Z would be nationalistic but very socially liberal/irreligious.

There's some statistic that shows 44% of gen z attends church. I'm not sure if the number is that high though. Many are probably forced to go by their parents though.

One thing I have noticed is that religiosity and politics is almost flipped with this generation. The conservatives are more culturally conservative/nationalist and secular whereas the liberals see Jesus as a socialist/liberal type figure and their faith reinforces their economic views

Part of the reason for higher church attendance could be immigration.

True. A large number of gen z are Hispanic and they're probably very catholic.

Also conservative whites tend to be more religious and outbreed liberal whites so their gen z kids are also going to church.

Or it could be that their parents are religious and make them go to church and they are not "very Catholic" themselves

I think this is quite likely. Although generally speaking the Hispanic kids of this generation seen to he more devout than the white kids. All of the Hitchens-atheist level youth I've met were all white.

This is why I predict that the types of atheists who go out of their way to argue with religious people will become Republicans.  Ten years ago their hatred was focused on rural conservatives.  Today their hatred is often focused on immigrants (especially Muslims).

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This is why I predict that the types of atheists who go out of their way to argue with religious people will become Republicans.  Ten years ago their hatred was focused on rural conservatives.  Today their hatred is often focused on immigrants (especially Muslims).

This what I think will start happening over these next couple decades as well. A realignment that positions the democrats as the Party of working class whites and minorities would effectively position the GOP as being the more secular, nonreligious Party in order to appeal to fiscally centrist and socially liberal college educated whites, suburbanites and upscale minorities. The northern strategy as you called it.

Hell you even saw this with Christopher Hitchens. A self described Marxist and anti-theist who sided with the neoconservatives on the Iraq war because stopping the spread of what he called "islamofascism" was more important.

I don't know if Democrats are going to win back working class whites any time soon.  But I do think that college educated whites will trend Republican once the nationalist message is carried by a more respectable standard-bearer than the orange one.  Evangelicals will continue to favor the GOP, but not with much enthusiasm, and turnout among this demographic will plummet.  The Democrats will make up for losing white voters with the growing minority population.

Hitchens was ahead of his time I guess.  If you look at a lot of the YouTube channels that attack Islam, a lot of them started out making fun of Christianity.