Reason-Rupe has a new survey and report out on
millennials—find the report
here.
Millennials don’t like to be nannied, opting for personal choice
over regulation across a number of activities and products
governments have banned or have sought to ban.
Six in 10 millennials favor legalizing online gambling (58%) and
allowing people to use e-cigarettes in public places (60%), view
adult pornography online (61%), and eat trans fats (62%).
Two-thirds also think people should be allowed to buy
traditional incandescent light bulbs (64%) and wear Google Glass in
public (66%).
While plastic bag bans continue to spring up across America’s
cities, 66 percent of millennials say grocery stores should be
allowed to offer plastic bags at check-out if they so choose.
Despite New York City’s effort to ban the sale of large sugary
drinks in restaurants and theaters, three-fourths of millennials
say people should be allowed to buy them.
Fully 81 percent say selling food from food trucks should be
allowed.
Millennials Want To Lower the Drinking Age
A majority (52 percent) of millennials (and not just college
students) also think it’s time to lower the legal drinking age. In
fact a quarter think we should simply eliminate a legal drinking
age altogether. These results are not significantly different
comparing those under 21 (51%) to those over 21 (53%). Forty-six
percent oppose lowering the legal drinking age.
Perhaps one reason a majority supports lowering the drinking age
is that 54 percent think policies intended to reduce underage
drinking are ineffective. Another 22 percent so far to say these
policies “create more problems than they solve.” A quarter think
the drinking age laws and policies are effective.
Support for lowering the legal drinking age increases with
education. A majority (53%) of those with high school degrees or
less don’t think we should lower the legal drinking age, compared
to 61 percent of college graduates who think we should.
Surprisingly, Republicans and conservatives diverge on the
drinking age. Conservatives are the only political group that
opposes lowering the drinking age (58% oppose, 41% favor), while
Republicans are the most likely to favor doing so (39% oppose, 61%
favor). In fact, Republicans are even more supportive than
Democrats (49%) and independents (49%).
Millennials grew up in the midst of fast-paced technological
change in which they have become accustomed to choice, change, and
personalization. This environment may very well have impacted their
beliefs individual autonomy and self-direction. Indeed, 53 percent
say individuals “should be allowed to do dangerous and
self-destructive things, as long as they don’t put others as risk,
” while 43 percent disagree.
To
learn more about millennials, check
out Reason-Rupe’s new report.
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