A good read. The media definitely can skew the reality. Reported Google searches are not broken down by demographics, but I wouldn’t be surprised, if, seeing the one day drop of nearly 10% on their currency, that people who voted ‘leave’ didn’t experience some sort of ‘buyer’s remorse’. I did, in fact, see a video interview of a woman whose entire family voted ‘leave’ and now they are all regretting their actions.

There is a really big assumption that you do make when you say:

Young people voted to remain primarily because the British elite and social media mavens pushed that view.

This is to assume that young people are unintelligent drones who can’t form their own intelligent opinions, and therefore are completely susceptible to views pushed on them by ‘elites’ and ‘social media’. Hmm…

In the end, both sides have their reasons for voting, and they might not be polar opposites. Elderly Brits might be more Xenophobic and want to stop immigration/refugees from settling there, which outweighs economic needs, whereas younger people who need jobs and a future would like to remain in a healthy economy — who realized ‘stay’ is the best option.

In the end the Google searches are telling, overall, because no matter who is doing the searching, they have no clue what’s going down next, and you’ve got to wonder about that.