Could the Republican Party soon see its end?
A new Pew Research survey suggests that the demise of the GOP could be nigh, according to a report by The Week.
The study, which examined the political affiliations of millennials - adults aged between 18 and 33 - showed a slight trend by demographic that could shove the Republican Party to the fringes.
According to the Pew study, most millennials lean heavily toward the Democratic Party. Those who do vote blue tend to have "liberal views on many political and social issues, ranging from a belief in an activist government to support for same-sex marriage and marijuana legalization."
Millennials are also the most ethnically diverse group of American citizens in the country's history, The Week reported - yet another reason why the generation of young people lean toward the left, politically speaking.
But Pew points out this isn't the only key factor that explains the tendency toward liberal ideals.
"Across a range of political and ideological measures, white millennials, while less liberal than the non-whites of their generation, are more liberal than the whites in older generations," authors of the study wrote.
Millennials are also the sole generation that identifies as liberal much more than they identify as conservative.
But millennials said they don't feel like they have ties or serious allegiance to the Democratic Party - in fact, 50 percent of millennials who participated in the study said they are political indendents.
The poll showed these political disaffiliations are at their highest level currently.
The study comes just one month after a Gallup poll revealed that just 25 percent of United States residents interviewed affiliated themselves with the Republican Party - the lowest number of people to identify as GOPers since the company began conducting the poll 25 years ago.
