{"id":1534,"date":"2005-02-14T13:29:33","date_gmt":"2005-02-14T20:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/more-liberal-than-your-parents-42-say-yes\/"},"modified":"2005-02-14T13:29:33","modified_gmt":"2005-02-14T20:29:33","slug":"more-liberal-than-your-parents-42-say-yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/more-liberal-than-your-parents-42-say-yes\/","title":{"rendered":"More Liberal Than Your Parents? 42% Say Yes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Economist.com | Social attitudes\" href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/world\/na\/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3649303\">Economist.com | Social attitudes<\/a><br \/>\nNot quite right<br \/>\nFrom The Economist print edition<\/p>\n<p>Americans seem to believe that they and their politics have got more conservative; but perhaps they haven&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>HAS American politics moved to the right? [There is] a new survey of 2,116 Americans by YouGov, a British-based internet pollster. They seem to reveal a somewhat schizophrenic tension in the body politic. Many Americans think that they and their politicians have become more conservative; yet, <b>when it comes to some fundamental questions, they have actually shifted to the left.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In terms of self-analysis, the direction is fairly clear. <b>A plurality of Americans (41%) think they have not changed much<\/b>; but, out of those who have changed, 30% have moved to the right, and only 19% to the left. The main swing rightwards has been among males, the old and, perhaps inevitably, Republicans. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><b>By a huge 42-19% margin, Americans think they are more liberal than their parents<\/b>.  &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>For some conservatives, these numbers may cause a fear which coincidentally provides their movement with much of its impetus: that, though they are winning elections, they are losing at least some of the culture wars.<\/p>\n<p>[link above has charts of survey results]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Economist.com | Social attitudes Not quite right From The Economist print edition Americans seem to believe that they and their politics have got more conservative; but perhaps they haven&#8217;t. HAS American politics moved to the right? [There is] a new survey of 2,116 Americans by YouGov, a British-based internet pollster. They seem to reveal a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/more-liberal-than-your-parents-42-say-yes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More Liberal Than Your Parents? 42% Say Yes<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}