Gen X / Gen Y Voting Trends

From the Baltimore Sun:

"The current generation of young voters, who came of age during the George W. Bush years, is leading the way in giving the Democrats a wide advantage in party identification, just as the previous generation of young people who grew up in the Reagan years -- Generation X -- fueled the Republican surge of the mid-1990's,'' the Pew Research Center reports.''

It doesn't surprise me that Gen X trended towards voting Republican. They were the party that preached (I'm not saying practiced) independence from government and many of us Xers grew up, well, independently.