A new Gallup Poll released on Friday shows most young voters in the United States will most likely identify as Democrats.
For the first time since 2006, it appears whites between the ages of 18 and 29 have shifted their affiliation away from the GOP, Gallup reported.
During the span of 2006 and 2013, 54 percent of young American adults said they were Democrats, or leaning toward that direction. 36 percent said they were either Republican or Republican-leaning. Compare that figure to the 47 percent of young people who said they were Democrats between 1993 and 2003. 42 percent said they were inclined to identify as Republicans during that time period.
62 percent of young non-whites told Gallup they identified as Democrats, while 25 percent said they were Republican.
These numbers reflect a recent poll conducted earlier this month by Pew Research.
The study, which examined the political affiliations of millennials - adults aged between 18 and 33 - showed a slight trend by demographic that some worried might shove the Republican Party to the fringes.
The Pew study found that 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 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 - a point that the Gallup Poll also pointed out. This could be another reason why the young generation leans toward the left.
But Pew pointed out this wasn't the only key factor that explained 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 only generation that identifies as liberal much more than they identify as conservative, Pew reported.
