Anteil der US-Bundesstaaten, die sich politisch als „liberal“ bezeichnen, 1996 gegenüber 2024. Insgesamt ist Amerika heute politisch ein liberaleres Land als 1996.
Von MakeACreation
Anteil der US-Bundesstaaten, die sich politisch als „liberal“ bezeichnen, 1996 gegenüber 2024. Insgesamt ist Amerika heute politisch ein liberaleres Land als 1996.
Von MakeACreation
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How much is this a result of the Overton window lurching to the extreme right over the past 2 decades?
Wyoming’s actually decreased
What was the actual options? Liberal vs Conservative? Or liberal on a scale with words like progressive, leftist, socialist, centrist, moderate, etc.
Many progressives and leftists refuse to use the term liberal to describe themselves as they view it as a centrist ideology
This is bc back than most democrats identified as moderate. Now more identify as liberal
If only AmE hadn’t warped the meaning of the word.
Locke, Rousseau, Gladstone and others would be at sea.
Tough shit. American democracy is dead. What trump says is the law now
This will upset a bunch of naive pickmes who eat up European bullshit (aN aMeRiCaN LiBeRaL iS tO ThE rIgHt oF EuRoPeAn fAsCiSts)
I’d imagine the percentage of conservative has also gone up.
What’s gone away is people in the midle
Does being liberal mean the same in 2024 as it did in 1996
This is just a map showing that the word liberal has become more palatable to US voters. The right-wing over-used it as a smear, so it lost its sting.
Until national elections happen then they all vanish from the earth.
I would bet a map of ‚conservatives‘ would show the same trend. People today are much more comfortable identifying with a political ideology. It’s never been so easy to surround yourself with information and people who agree with whatever you believe.
The decline of a nation.
That’s good because if you listen to the rhetoric and social media it would seem that both major parties are becoming more and more anti-liberal.
The authoritarians on the left and right have been getting louder and louder with SM. It’s always nice to see even fuzzy fragments of data that reminds us liberalism isn’t dead in the US.
I know many independents, center left and center right that will say they’re “liberal” today but wouldn’t have in 1996. They (me too) are using it to differentiate themselves from the Progressives and MAGA. Maybe that’s a significant factor of where this data comes from?
Another factor is the reagan democrats and non-reagan union pre-WW2 I don’t think identified as “liberal” much. But they did vote democrat most of their lives. Most of them are dead now. The younger generations of democrats have always used the term “liberal” more.
Wyoming is so based
A Fox News voter analysis from 2024 vs CNN exit polls from 1996. Would like to see the metrics on this.
What a misfortune for the entire country. The slow decay of our once great society is accelerating.
I am always amazed by the US definition of „liberal“ as „left wing“. Leftists are in favor of prioritizing state/organization/collective over individual goals and privileges. This is exactly the opposite of „liberties“. Leftists always try to blur the „left-right“ definition, because they obviously don’t want to be associated with all the previous failed leftist „attempts to build the new brave world“, which every single time ended with poverty, totalitarian terror and death.
I definitely pay attention to politics more than any other person I’ve personally met and I have no idea what liberalism actually means. I’m assuming what matters on a questionnaire is if the word liberalism has any recent negative connotations associate with the word.
All those illegals the liberals let in