51% of the population want to be on the Northern Hemisphere when a star from another galaxy erupts and wipes out the southern hemisphere. What do they want? They wouldn't know any better than you. And they are not exactly a unified force either. It's not like they're an army, sharing an ideology. They can be divided into many groups, each having it's own subset of wishes and desires. Generalisations make it easier to learn by accumulating information in large clumps, but in this case it is inadequate.