Poll: Millennials more likely to self-identify as libertarians than any other generation

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last updated 14 April 2015

A new poll indicates that libertarians are found in the highest concentration among millennials.illennials, who are more willing to accept the label than any other generation:

While most polls place people with libertarian leanings at about a quarter of the broader population, asking Americans whether they'd describe themselves as "socially liberal and fiscally conservative" — a simple approximation of libertarian views — can bump that figure as high as 59 percent. And a 2014 poll found that 53 percent of millennials would vote for candidates who described themselves with that formula.

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.

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