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Is that necessarily the case though? It's always a movement relative to the mean - so if society gets more progressive due to young people having those views, the effect (relative shift to the right as age increases) would be visible even if views just didn't change....
andyfallsoff-
See what you are saying. But then again the political parties are targeting certain age groups so it's not just about "views" it's the whole economic offering.
Probably very different in the UK to the US. Feels like the "centre ground" in the US hasn't moved, just the parties have moved away from it, whereas in the UK the centre ground has drifted but the parties are less polarised?
NickCJ
John B-M is always good, isn't he.
For me this has to be a story about home ownership / generational wealth distribution. Owning your own place and "enjoying" a few years of house price inflation turns you into a Tory. Has informed all of the blue team's housing policies since Thatcher.