Generational Change in Culture/Attitudes of the Elderly

[H. Ross Peron]

A lot of discussion on generational change focuses on how youth culture and views have changed over time such as the shift from conservative Gen X youths in the Eighties to much more liberal Millennials and Zoomers in the Aughts. Similarly, how have political views and broader cultural tendencies of the elderly have changed in past generation now that Greatest and even Silent Generation elderly are being increasingly replaced by Boomers? One key shift people have noted is that the elderly are no longer pro-Democratic as they were in the Nineties when Greatest Generation retirees who remembered the New Deal continued to support the party of FDR.

[WindowPhil]

Greatest Generation retirees who remembered the New Deal continued to support the party of FDR.

Silent and Boomer retirees who remember the Cold War continue to support the party of Reagan.

This is for the same reason we had conservative Gen X youths in the Eighties. The cold war was going on and the people who lived through it were shaped by (wrongful) associations of social safety nets and secularism with totalitarian autocracy.

[bagelman]

Greatest Generation retirees who remembered the New Deal continued to support the party of FDR.

Silent and Boomer retirees who remember the Cold War continue to support the party of Reagan.

This is for the same reason we had conservative Gen X youths in the Eighties. The cold war was going on and the people who lived through it were shaped by (wrongful) associations of social safety nets and secularism with totalitarian autocracy.

Older Xers may also also fit in this group.