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"Widely supported" is a bit misleading here, as it makes it seem that they as a group they support the brexit. Your own figures indicate that a majority of vote
by WJW 10y ago
"Widely supported" is a bit misleading here, as it makes it seem that they as a group they support the brexit. Your own figures indicate that a majority of voters aged 25-44 and 75% of the very young wanted to remain. Remain was actually the widely supported position among people under 44.
I think you are correct about the 70+ people though, it makes sense that they would be the ones reading "traditional" travel writers while the younger generations read blogs and whatnot.
- edblarney 10y ago40% is 'widely supported'. That there is a 60/40 split in a demographic over some political issue, I don't think has anything to do with anything tangent from that. Wide pluralities of pro-Brexit people are actually pro-Europe. Anti EU != Anti Europe, or anti anything else for that matter. Once those young people grow up a little bit, experience the world, and see how European politics work, how currencies work, and see the implications of all of that, they might be more pragmatic about it, and possibly pro-Brexit. When I was younger and lived in Europe, I was 'default pro EU', because I knew little about it. Now that I know a lot more, I'm much, much more skeptical for example. But most relevant to the article, I don't think it has anything at all to do with 'travel' ... neither does Trump.
- dgfgfdagasdfgfa 10y agoEhh, I mean TBH I found it surprising that 40% of 25-44 y/os were supporting it; I would most certainly characterize that as 'wide support' (but not majority or plurality).