"You Hate Me, Now With a Colorful Chart!" by Kevin Drum at Mother Jones

[applegrove]

You Hate Me, Now With a Colorful Chart!

by Kevin Drum at Mother Jones

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/09/you-hate-me-now-colorful-chart?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed

"SNIP...........................................

I wrote about a recent study showing that Americans are a lot more agitated than they used to be about the prospect of their daughter marrying someone from the other political party. Normally I wouldn't revisit this, but a reader sent me a copy of the full study and I found the actual figures pretty fascinating.

After wrestling with Excel to figure out how to get a scatterplot to work properly, I created the chart on the right. With only three data points I suppose it's best not to get too worked up about this, but what struck me is the gigantic recent jump. Between 1960 and 2008, the number of upset partisans went up by 16 points among Democrats and 22 points among Republicans. Then, between 2008 and 2010, the number went up by 13 points among Democrats and 22 points among Republicans. That's as much in two years as in the previous 48.

That's....astonishing. I'm not sure whether to write this off as an obvious statistical fluke, or to accept it at face value and try to figure how it's possible. I mean, sure, we had the tea party and all that after Obama was elected, but the previous half century had the John Birch Society, the 60s counterculture, the Reagan era, the anti-Clinton jihadists, the Gingrich Revolution, and the Iraq war. It's a little hard to believe that the past couple of years have been that uniquely spleen-inducing. Comments?


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[quaker bill]

1. I cautioned my daughter about dating republicans

But she had to figure it out on her own. She did just fine.

[applegrove]

2. I would not want any family of mine to date a republican. It is more of a cult than a party.

[Arugula Latte]

3. Me too. I told both my kids to steer clear.

I also told my daughter to steer clear of men who hate cats. Bad sign. Very, very bad.