Demographics of Millennials

When I give presentations about cross-generational competence, I'm often asked if the characteristics of Millennials that I describe apply across race, ethnicity, or socio-economic status. Unfortunately, as this blog post indicates, when I'm talking about law students, they don't. Millennials who haven't managed to get a college education are the vast minority of all Millennials, just as they tend to be the vast minority of other generations. Likewise, when describing Millennial law students, I'm largely describing a group of white students. Not that this is highly unusual for research of any kind. Often the first research in any area is done on white men. The rest of us usually aren't included until someone cleverly points out that we aren't all white men.