Study shows more than half of young Americans don’t identify with a major political party
Springtide Research Institute was recently featured in an article by Catholic Review. You can see an excerpt of this article in part below, but we encourage you to visit their site to read the piece in its entirety.
A recent report from Springtide Research Institute, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, found that a growing share of young people do not identify with a political party, defying traditional political categories.
In the group’s recent report, Cultivating Care: How & Why Young People Participate in Civic Life, researchers found that more than half of Gen Z and Gen Alpha participants, ages 13 to 25, do not identify with either one of the two major political parties in favor of issue-specific engagement over broad partisan affiliation.
The report found an equal percentage of participants ages 13 to 25 identify as Republican or Democrat — 23 percent; more than half said they did not identify with a major political party at all.