How Birth Year Influences Political Views

This was published in 2014, but I hadn't seen it until today. (Also, I apologize if we looked at this in class, it maybe looks familiar but I can't remember).

It's a pretty cool set of graphs that show how birth year, events, and presidencies affect longterm party preference. I know this is something we read about in Hershey in the beginning of the semester.

"The model assumes generations of voters choose their team, Democrats or Republicans, based on their cumulative life experience — a “running tally” of events. By using Gallup’s presidential approval rating as a proxy for those events, Yair Ghitza, chief scientist at Catalist, and Andrew Gelman, a political scientist and statistician at Columbia University, were able to estimate when political preferences are formed."

Link: 
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/07/08/upshot/how-the-year-you-were-born-influences-your-politics.html