• Generation Y is significantly more likely to call itself liberal (31 percent) than older Americans
  • 34 percent call themselves political moderate 
  • 30 percent call themselves conservative
• Generation Y is also more likely to identify with the Democrats (39 percent) than the Republicans (28 percent) with a significant number calling themselves politically independent (31 percent).
• Over half (54 percent) agree that gays and lesbians should have the legal right to get married and nearly two thirds (64 percent) agree that women should have the legal right to choose an abortion.
• A near majority (49 percent) say that they buy environmentally friendly products
• 79 percent of evangelical Protestants and 87 percent of Muslim youth oppose gay marriage compared to 47 percent of mainline Protestants, 36 percent of Catholics, and 27 percent of Jews
• 84 percent agree that immigrants share American values of democracy and freedom
• 46 percent of Asian youth and 33 percent of Hispanic youth say they have experienced discrimination because of their racial or ethnic background.
  • 28 percent of Asian youth say they feel like outsiders very often (4 percent) or somewhat often (24 percent)
  • 22 percent of Hispanic youth say like the feel like outsiders very often (4 percent) or somewhat often (18 percent)
• 62 percent of youth identify with some variant of Christianity,  but only 54 percent agree that the United States is a Christian nation.
  • While this number is higher among the most religious, it is certainly not universal -even among evangelical Protestants (62 percent say the United States is a Christian nation).
  • African Americans (41 percent) and Jewish youth (45 percent) are the least likely to agree that the country is fundamentally Christian.

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