How Quickly Americans Change Their Mind

This is a really great visual(s) on 6 key issues presented by bloomberg showing how states take on key issues and then the pace of adoption before federal action:

i’m partially posting this because i can’t look at it as thoroughly as i want to right now and i want to look at it in more detail late :slight_smile:

I still can’t believe women are allowed to vote. WTF happened there?

I WAS studying for a cert, till you had to go and muck things all up. :stuck_out_tongue:

One thing I note is the rapid acceptance of change found in the 20’s, early 70’s and again recently. Correlation is not causation, but social change seems to play a role in economic strength.

Can you get gay married anywhere in Canada? I mean, if you can, it’s probably not allowed anywhere near the capital of Toronto

You fool, everybody knows that the capital of Canada is the Sunnyvale Trailer Park in Nova Scotia.

the change in the speed of change is interesting but not surprising here… legalized weed is just a matter of time.

what are the next social issues worthy of these charts?

Insert maple syrup joke here

aaaaaanyways… thread title mirrors the title of the article from the Bloomberg main page… it wasnt a shot

http://www.bings.ca/images/misc/Other/bloomberg.jpg

and even worse,running for president. We never had a woman before,lets vote it in!

Nice. I even like how you refer to Hillary as “it”. Well, I guess to some extent… this is true.

The one constant is, the South is always behind the times. On everything except Prohibition, that is. :beer:

Jim Lahey for President!

fixed.

I dont like that title. How about Jim Lahey for Canadian Supervisor