Only 10 percent of those who participated in the March for Our Lives last weekend were under 18, despite many media reports focusing on the youth of the organizers.
The March 24 rally in Washington, D.C., mostly comprised educated women, according to a new Washington Post analysis released Wednesday.
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The average profile of a marcher was a 49-year-old, college-educated woman. Compared to the Women’s March last January, of which 85 percent of the participants were women, the March for Our Lives rally was made up of 70 percent women.
Along with a team of researchers, the Post surveyed a random sample of the crowd at the march and found participants were more likely to be less politically engaged than protesters in other marches.
About 27 percent of March for Our Lives participants had never protested before, and only a third of marchers had contacted an elected official in the past year compared to 75 percent of those more seasoned protesters.
More notably, the new protesters were less motivated to join the march because of gun-control issues. Instead, those new marchers wanted to participate in the rally to advocate for peace or wanted to express their opposition to the Trump administration.
