Those Liberal White Women With the Mental Health Diagnoses
25th July 2023
I’ve seen lots of articles lately of this sort:
More than HALF (56.3%) of liberal white women age 18-29 have been diagnosed with a mental health condition. That’s more than DOUBLE the percentage (27.3%) of conservative white women in the same age bracket.
If you look at the charts at the link, the same is true of other age groups (although the differences between liberal and conservatives in other age group are considerably less, they follow the same pattern) and it’s also true for white men. In fact, the differences are even more stark for liberal white men versus conservative white men, and there’s a huge disparity in all age groups for that population.
Most of the speculation on this seems to focus on women; I’m not sure why. And I’d be curious if this effect is only found among white people.