{"id":15302,"date":"2009-11-05T10:01:30","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T15:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=15302"},"modified":"2012-09-18T23:56:34","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T04:56:34","slug":"support-for-same-sex-marriage-by-age-and-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/11\/05\/support-for-same-sex-marriage-by-age-and-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Support for Same-Sex Marriage by Age and State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John L. sent in a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/baselinescenario.com\/2009\/11\/04\/same-sex-marriage-and-time\/\" target=\"_blank\">a visual illustrating support for gay marriage by state and age<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15305\" title=\"age1\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/11\/age1.jpg\" alt=\"age1\" width=\"487\" height=\"523\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The data supports the notion that younger people are more supportive of gay marriage than older people. I also think it&#8217;s interesting that, even in states that we normally consider quite hostile to gay rights (the ones at the bottom of the table), there is still a significant age difference:\u00a0 18-29 year-olds in Alabama, for example, are more supportive of gay marriage than people 65 and older in Massachusetts.\u00a0 So, while we like to think about states as &#8220;liberal&#8221; or &#8220;conservative,&#8221; spreading out the data by age tells a much more complicated story.<\/p>\n<p>For more data on support for gay rights, see <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/06\/06\/the-contact-hypothesis-and-spurious-relationships\/\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/06\/16\/opinions-on-gay-rights-issues-by-state\/\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Wade is a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">professor of sociology at Occidental College<\/a>. You can follow her on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\/followers\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Lisa-Wade-PhD\/174350419354908\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John L. sent in a link to a visual illustrating support for gay marriage by state and age: The data supports the notion that younger people are more supportive of gay marriage than older people. I also think it&#8217;s interesting that, even in states that we normally consider quite hostile to gay rights (the ones [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[349,272,304,693,54],"class_list":["post-15302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ageaging","tag-marriagefamily","tag-the-state","tag-public-opinion","tag-sexual-orientation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15302"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51198,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15302\/revisions\/51198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}