Millennials — defined as people born between 1982 and 2004 — make up one-third of North Carolina’s population. They soon will constitute the largest chunk of the adult population. But thanks to lower rates of legal citizenship and voter participation, millennials are not likely to play as large a role as Baby Boomers in the 2016 elections.
Those facts emerged from a presentation to the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society from Rebecca Tippett, director of Carolina Demography at UNC-Chapel Hill’s Carolina Population Center. Tippett also discussed other key features of a generation that stretches from preteens to those in their early 30s.
In the video clip below, she challenges the notion that millennials don’t want to achieve the same goals as previous generations.
2:50 p.m. update: Click play below to watch the full 56:27 event.
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