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Future Trends for Same-Sex Marriage Support?

By Jeff Lax on June 21, 2009 11:43 PM

How will support for same-sex marriage change over time? One way to speculate is to break down current support across age groups, and that's what Justin and I have done, building off of our forthcoming paper.

We plot explicit support for allowing same-sex marriage broken down by state and by age. Seven states cross the 50% mark overall as of our current estimates, but the generation gap is huge. If policy were set by state-by-state majorities of those 65 or older, none would allow same-sex marriage. If policy were set by those under 30, only 12 states would not allow-same-sex marriage.

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  • Ramat: With Utah, it probably has to do with age distribution read more
  • Kristin: I am married with 3 kids and not only don't read more
  • Andrew Gelman: I do not think your hypothesis ("When young people get read more
  • Thank God for western civ: The under 30 crowd supports school vouchers and social security read more
  • JonBen: Very interesting data. I understand the social context of putting read more
  • Trevor Stone: thephilosiraptor's claim that all of America's problems will be solved read more
  • Deb Howlett: The data seems also to confirm that where states have read more
  • Deb Howlett: The data seems also to confirm that where states have read more
  • Gabe Small: "every age group of Utah & Alaska is less supportive read more
  • thephilosiraptor: So what your graph is saying, and I would dare read more
  • Jim: It's true that people's social views do get slightly more read more
  • Robert: Just wondering, if you could put a date on it, read more
  • Phil E. Drifter: If you want to marry someone the same gender as read more
  • Ben Hyde: The steeper the slope the greater the polarization. I wonder read more
  • Donald Braman: I think the graph on page 48 of your paper read more
  • Donald Braman: I love the graph -- this paper just keeps getting read more
  • Science Boy: Whether good Sir William of razor-related fame, above, is correct read more
  • William Ockham: Actually, people tend to become slightly more liberal on most read more
  • John Meunier: Fascinating graph. How do opinions of age cohorts tend to read more
  • RE: Very interesting. Thank you for sharing. A few questions: How read more

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