<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><h1 class="title" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25em; color: rgb(75, 75, 75); -webkit-hyphens: manual; max-width: 100%; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b style="max-width: 100%;"><font size="3">The Coming Democratic Schism</font></b></h1><h1 class="title" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25em; color: rgb(75, 75, 75); -webkit-hyphens: manual; max-width: 100%; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b style="line-height: 25px; max-width: 100%;"><font size="3">There is a striking generational split in the Democratic electorate.</font></b></h1><p data-para-count="332" data-total-count="400" itemprop="articleBody" style="max-width: 100%; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25px;">This deepening division is apparent in a June <a href="http://www.people-press.org/files/2014/06/6-26-14-Political-Typology-release1.pdf" style="color: rgb(65, 110, 210); text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">Pew Research Center survey</a> of more than 10,000 people, “Beyond Red vs. Blue.” The Pew survey points up the emergence of a cohort of younger voters who are loyal to the Democratic Party, but much less focused on economic redistribution than on issues of personal and sexual autonomy.</p><div><span style="font-size: 17px;">(There are some troubling trends in our younger Democratic brethren. M.S.) </span></div><div><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/16/opinion/thomas-edsall-a-shift-in-young-democrats-values.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=c-column-top-span-region®ion=c-column-top-span-region&WT.nav=c-column-top-span-region&_r=1">http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/16/opinion/thomas-edsall-a-shift-in-young-democrats-values.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=c-column-top-span-region%C2%AEion=c-column-top-span-region&WT.nav=c-column-top-span-region&_r=1</a></div></body></html>