This Is How Fast America Changes Its Mind (Interesting Chart)

[Hissyspit]

http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-pace-of-social-change/

This Is How Fast America Changes Its Mind
By Alex Tribou and Keith Collins
Updated: June 26, 2015

Eleven years after Massachusetts became the first state to allow same-sex couples to marry, the Supreme Court has now extended that right nationwide. The decision came after a wave of gay marriage legalization: 28 states from 2013 to 2015, with 36 overall prior to the Court's ruling. Such widespread acceptance in a short amount of time isn't a phenomenon unique to gay marriage. Social change in the U.S. appears to follow a pattern: A few pioneer states get out front before the others, and then a key event—often a court decision or a grassroots campaign reaching maturity—triggers a rush of state activity that ultimately leads to a change in federal law.

We looked at six big issues—interracial marriage, prohibition, women’s suffrage, abortion, same-sex marriage, and recreational marijuana — to show how this has happened in the past, and may again in the very near future.



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[Surya Gayatri]

1. Great find, Hissy. Thanks for posting.

[Wounded Bear]

2. It's called a tipping point...

Once a sufficient mass of people get on board an issue like this, everything just accelerates, often culminating in a SCOTUS decision, like marriage equality did.

People are fed up with 'conservative' stonewalling.

[MisterP]

4. that was on yesterday

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026913043

[Egnever]

3. Interesting graphs

I think taking a starting point of legalization in one state as the starting point is a very odd place to consider a starting point for change. By that point there is usually already considerable forward momentum.

[Hissyspit]

5. Kick nt