tbh I would assume a significant number of Republicans that support same sex marriage simply stopped calling themselves Republicans. I anecdotally know a bunch of classical pre-2016 conservatives that now call themselves Independent, some who even who voted for Trump the first time around, but the co-opting of GOP by the Cult of MAGA has driven many of those moderate conservatives away. Those who remain are hard liners.
I guess they just go with whatever they hear on the news
So are people changing their views, or did people who supported same-sex marriage stop describing themselves as Republican?
Overall support has only dropped 2% because it’s increased in other political demographics
It’s just bizarre to me that a significant number — 14% — of people who thought same-sex marriage was just fine a few years ago have now decided it isn’t. I mean, sure, Trumpism makes some attitudes more acceptable, but these surveys are, I assume, anonymous, and that’s a huge shift, for an existing policy that has gotten no other bad PR.
EDIT: According to this, self-described party affiliation has barely changed in the last four or five years, so that can’t be the reason. [https://news.gallup.com/poll/15370/party-affiliation.aspx](https://news.gallup.com/poll/15370/party-affiliation.aspx)
To be fair, my support for rights for republicans has declined as well the past few years, so ah well, comme-ci comme-ca
It’ll never not baffle me that the people that preach freedoms and right to live their life how they wish, so vehemently want to control other peoples lives and not let them live how they wish because they… are upset they kiss the same gender?
Odd choice for a data snapshot. Why not show the whole graph?
They don’t believe in freedom
But all independents are just republicans too embarrassed to admit it I thought…..
Fox News has pumped a ton of anti-trans propaganda in recent years. I imagine this had downstream effects. Couple this with Republicans overall hatred for pride and the LGBTQ+ community and sooner or later people start disliking the gays again.
This shows that propaganda really works!
I just scrolled past an opinion article that referenced this poll.
Because being a evangelical fake-ass Christian is the in thing right now with MAGAs.
Interesting that the net percentage went down from 24 to 25 despite Dems and Independents jumping
The is a chart that shows the absurdity of “woke Democrats” as a common label.
It’s the most famous social issue of the 21st century and independents are close to Democrats on the subject.
Republicans are way off track.
It’s interesting that during the first Trump presidency it was still going up and has since started to decline.
This is one quick court case from being reversed.
Are you all happy with your votes since 2016?
Makes sense, the GOP has been really upping their propaganda campaign that all queer people are child molesters.
Fuck ’em, who cares. Same-sex marriage got passed without their support the first time.
Republicans have become radicalized with MAGA propaganda.
Proof that Republicans can be negatively polarized to believe in basically anything at this point
This is an alarming trend. The amount of backsliding we’re doing as a society is concerning to say the least
Republicans views on same sex marriage (and abortion, and healthcare, and education) trend downwards the closer we are to the next presidential election. Their opinions are solely formed around what fox news and other right wing media tell them to believe. Media rhetoric starts getting more intense once election season begins. Unfortunately America is in election season 50% of the time because people start campaigning two years before the actual election.
Imagine not being gay and caring THIS much about gay people getting married. Don’t the pitchfork carrying, pronoun-fearing conservatives have anything better to do?
It’s a mixed bag. When same sex marriage was legalized nationally, the press surrounding it was generally in favor. Currently the Republican Party is preaching that God needs to return to American households, so it’s not surprising to see more republicans being more strict on religious views.
I also saw a comment that a lot of pro same sex marriage republicans probably don’t identity as such anymore.
Too bad. It’s already been codified. SCOTUS can’t overturn that
Trump announced his second campaign in 2022. He gave his followers permission to hate again.
2020-2023 was around the time where Republicans were becoming more mask off with what they wanted to do to our democracy and institutions, so I’m sure the very few people who supported gay marriage but identified as Republicans stopped identifying as them because they saw what their party truly wanted: religious theocracy.
That massive dive for example from 2022-2023 correlates to the boost that independents got that same year.
I just can’t imagine caring what other people do with their sex lives this much. Bunch of weirdos.
All sections fluctuate according to this, dems will go down next year, republicans up.
Seems it depends who they ask on the day!
But it has increased with independents (the most influential voting block).
They should not get gay married then
As the Republican Party has transformed into a reactionary authoritarian party, the idea of coexistence and toleration has become more and more optional to Republican voters.
Gay people being present and accepted in society is no longer something they feel they have to accept. The unlimited power of the presidency gives them the power to force the rest of society to bend to their will.
People who made their peace with gay marriage have realized maybe they can take it back after all.
What does it even mean to hold an opinion? These people probably never supported it but just briefly said they did, when it was fashionable to support it. That’s the cynic in me though.
They just stopped lying about their opinions is all.
I suspect this demonstrates less of a change in individual Republicans, and more of the fact that the party itself has moved further to the right, hemorrhaging moderate conservatives as it goes. I would certainly describe myself as a moderate conservative who no longer really identifies with the Republican party since around… 2015.
It’s possible that this is an example of social desirability bias (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social-desirability_bias) over the last 3 years it has become more acceptable in republican circles to hold views that would have been viewed as unacceptable a few years ago. So people who were always privately opposed to same sex marriage are more willing to say so when polled.
Another explanation would be that more centrist republicans who are more likely to hold pro-gay marriage views are no longer identifying as republicans. However, during the time period republican registration has gone up significantly [https://news.gallup.com/poll/655157/gop-holds-edge-party-affiliation-third-straight-year.aspx](https://news.gallup.com/poll/655157/gop-holds-edge-party-affiliation-third-straight-year.aspx) so to explain a 14% of drop in support during a time when republican identification was rising there would have to be a huge (~20%) influx of new people identifying as republicans, and almost all these people would have to be anti-gay marriage. It’s not impossible, but I don’t know of evidence that this is happening.
It’s going up with indies and dems, which is great news
republicans are trash. Fuck what they think.
It’s almost like the Republican Party has doubled down on demonizing LGBT folk and making them the scapegoat for all of America’s woes
Could be a change in how comfortable people feel in revealing their opinions to surveyors. The regime and some social trends support their bigotry, so they’re more outspoken about it. I think this is not better than hidden bigotry. What’s considered socially acceptable ultimately drives opinion over the long term, so it’s really worrying that bigots feel they have permission. I’d argue too that this climate emboldens words and behavior, everything from rude comments to actual violence.
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Source: [Gallup Poll](https://news.gallup.com/poll/691139/record-party-divide-years-sex-marriage-ruling.aspx)
Tools: [Datawrapper](https://www.datawrapper.de/)
tbh I would assume a significant number of Republicans that support same sex marriage simply stopped calling themselves Republicans. I anecdotally know a bunch of classical pre-2016 conservatives that now call themselves Independent, some who even who voted for Trump the first time around, but the co-opting of GOP by the Cult of MAGA has driven many of those moderate conservatives away. Those who remain are hard liners.
I guess they just go with whatever they hear on the news
So are people changing their views, or did people who supported same-sex marriage stop describing themselves as Republican?
Overall support has only dropped 2% because it’s increased in other political demographics
It’s just bizarre to me that a significant number — 14% — of people who thought same-sex marriage was just fine a few years ago have now decided it isn’t. I mean, sure, Trumpism makes some attitudes more acceptable, but these surveys are, I assume, anonymous, and that’s a huge shift, for an existing policy that has gotten no other bad PR.
EDIT: According to this, self-described party affiliation has barely changed in the last four or five years, so that can’t be the reason. [https://news.gallup.com/poll/15370/party-affiliation.aspx](https://news.gallup.com/poll/15370/party-affiliation.aspx)
To be fair, my support for rights for republicans has declined as well the past few years, so ah well, comme-ci comme-ca
It’ll never not baffle me that the people that preach freedoms and right to live their life how they wish, so vehemently want to control other peoples lives and not let them live how they wish because they… are upset they kiss the same gender?
Odd choice for a data snapshot. Why not show the whole graph?
They don’t believe in freedom
But all independents are just republicans too embarrassed to admit it I thought…..
Fox News has pumped a ton of anti-trans propaganda in recent years. I imagine this had downstream effects. Couple this with Republicans overall hatred for pride and the LGBTQ+ community and sooner or later people start disliking the gays again.
This shows that propaganda really works!
I just scrolled past an opinion article that referenced this poll.
[Lesbians Like Me Joined Forces with Conservatives. Now They’re Turning on Us](https://www.queermajority.com/essays-all/lesbians-like-me-joined-forces-with-conservatives)
Because being a evangelical fake-ass Christian is the in thing right now with MAGAs.
Interesting that the net percentage went down from 24 to 25 despite Dems and Independents jumping
The is a chart that shows the absurdity of “woke Democrats” as a common label.
It’s the most famous social issue of the 21st century and independents are close to Democrats on the subject.
Republicans are way off track.
It’s interesting that during the first Trump presidency it was still going up and has since started to decline.
This is one quick court case from being reversed.
Are you all happy with your votes since 2016?
Makes sense, the GOP has been really upping their propaganda campaign that all queer people are child molesters.
Fuck ’em, who cares. Same-sex marriage got passed without their support the first time.
Republicans have become radicalized with MAGA propaganda.
Proof that Republicans can be negatively polarized to believe in basically anything at this point
This is an alarming trend. The amount of backsliding we’re doing as a society is concerning to say the least
Republicans views on same sex marriage (and abortion, and healthcare, and education) trend downwards the closer we are to the next presidential election. Their opinions are solely formed around what fox news and other right wing media tell them to believe. Media rhetoric starts getting more intense once election season begins. Unfortunately America is in election season 50% of the time because people start campaigning two years before the actual election.
Imagine not being gay and caring THIS much about gay people getting married. Don’t the pitchfork carrying, pronoun-fearing conservatives have anything better to do?
It’s a mixed bag. When same sex marriage was legalized nationally, the press surrounding it was generally in favor. Currently the Republican Party is preaching that God needs to return to American households, so it’s not surprising to see more republicans being more strict on religious views.
I also saw a comment that a lot of pro same sex marriage republicans probably don’t identity as such anymore.
Too bad. It’s already been codified. SCOTUS can’t overturn that
Trump announced his second campaign in 2022. He gave his followers permission to hate again.
2020-2023 was around the time where Republicans were becoming more mask off with what they wanted to do to our democracy and institutions, so I’m sure the very few people who supported gay marriage but identified as Republicans stopped identifying as them because they saw what their party truly wanted: religious theocracy.
That massive dive for example from 2022-2023 correlates to the boost that independents got that same year.
I just can’t imagine caring what other people do with their sex lives this much. Bunch of weirdos.
All sections fluctuate according to this, dems will go down next year, republicans up.
Seems it depends who they ask on the day!
But it has increased with independents (the most influential voting block).
They should not get gay married then
As the Republican Party has transformed into a reactionary authoritarian party, the idea of coexistence and toleration has become more and more optional to Republican voters.
Gay people being present and accepted in society is no longer something they feel they have to accept. The unlimited power of the presidency gives them the power to force the rest of society to bend to their will.
People who made their peace with gay marriage have realized maybe they can take it back after all.
What does it even mean to hold an opinion? These people probably never supported it but just briefly said they did, when it was fashionable to support it. That’s the cynic in me though.
They just stopped lying about their opinions is all.
I suspect this demonstrates less of a change in individual Republicans, and more of the fact that the party itself has moved further to the right, hemorrhaging moderate conservatives as it goes. I would certainly describe myself as a moderate conservative who no longer really identifies with the Republican party since around… 2015.
It’s possible that this is an example of social desirability bias (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social-desirability_bias) over the last 3 years it has become more acceptable in republican circles to hold views that would have been viewed as unacceptable a few years ago. So people who were always privately opposed to same sex marriage are more willing to say so when polled.
Another explanation would be that more centrist republicans who are more likely to hold pro-gay marriage views are no longer identifying as republicans. However, during the time period republican registration has gone up significantly [https://news.gallup.com/poll/655157/gop-holds-edge-party-affiliation-third-straight-year.aspx](https://news.gallup.com/poll/655157/gop-holds-edge-party-affiliation-third-straight-year.aspx) so to explain a 14% of drop in support during a time when republican identification was rising there would have to be a huge (~20%) influx of new people identifying as republicans, and almost all these people would have to be anti-gay marriage. It’s not impossible, but I don’t know of evidence that this is happening.
It’s going up with indies and dems, which is great news
republicans are trash. Fuck what they think.
It’s almost like the Republican Party has doubled down on demonizing LGBT folk and making them the scapegoat for all of America’s woes
Could be a change in how comfortable people feel in revealing their opinions to surveyors. The regime and some social trends support their bigotry, so they’re more outspoken about it. I think this is not better than hidden bigotry. What’s considered socially acceptable ultimately drives opinion over the long term, so it’s really worrying that bigots feel they have permission. I’d argue too that this climate emboldens words and behavior, everything from rude comments to actual violence.
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