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It’s becoming cooler to call yourself ‘liberal’ (thanks to marijuana and gay marriage)

Submitted by Marijuana News on Sat, 05/30/2015 - 07:49

For the first time since Gallup began tracking it in 1999, there are now as many Americans who describe their views on social issues as "liberal" as there are who describe them as "conservative."

It's been a long and slow crawl, but Americans have steadily become more liberal on social issues without much interruption -- except for a brief dip when President Obama first took office in 2009. Today, it's tied at 31 percent. Back in 1999, it was about two-to-one conservative over liberal.

(via Gallup)
(via Gallup)

The most obvious answer for what's driving the change is same-sex marriage and marijuana. Between 1999 and 2015, recreational marijuana and same-sex marriage have gone from being legal in zero states to legal in four and 36, respectively (plus the District of Columbia).

And not coincidentally, that's come with significant uptick in public support. Below...

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