As goes California ...

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: TILTING at windmills - On age groups and political affiliation - Brief article

"Since 2004 we've seen younger people voting much more Democratic than average and older people much more Republican than average," concludes Andrew Kohut, in a study by the Pew Research Center, which he directs. I think this trend may have begun much earlier--thirty-three years ago, in fact. That's when California voters adopted Proposition 13, which was basically a statement by property owners old enough to no longer have children in public schools that they were more concerned with avoiding taxes than with educating the young. Of course, the Republican Party, with its knee-jerk opposition to taxes, provided this group a natural home. The only hope the Democrats seem to have of...