If you click on the 'LINK' below there's the article and a interactive graph that shows the speed and spread of each of those 6 top-hot-button social issues in the USA!

Very interesting - INDEED! Especially that last interactive graph and the 'SPEED OF CHANGE'...amazing!


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This Is How Fast America Changes Its Mind

By Alex Tribou and Keith Collins
Updated: June 26, 2015

Eleven years after Massachusetts became the first state to allow same-sex couples to marry, the Supreme Court has now extended that right nationwide. The decision came after a wave of gay marriage legalization: 28 states from 2013 to 2015, with 36 overall prior to the Court's ruling. Such widespread acceptance in a short amount of time isn't a phenomenon unique to gay marriage. Social change in the U.S. appears to follow a pattern: A few pioneer states get out front before the others, and then a key event—often a court decision or a grassroots campaign reaching maturity—triggers a rush of state activity that ultimately leads to a change in federal law.

We looked at six big issues—interracial marriage, prohibition, women’s suffrage, abortion, same-sex marriage, and recreational marijuana — to show how this has happened in the past, and may again in the very near future.[b/]
********** {last paragraph - right before the 'SPEED OF THE CHANGE' graph is shown! >>>

If the pattern holds, the marijuana legalization movement may take far less time than other issues to gain widespread acceptance. Though the pattern of social change may have remained largely the same over the years, change is happening faster now. It took almost 200 years before the Supreme Court disposed of the last state laws banning interracial marriage. The prohibition movement spanned seven decades before passage of the 18th Amendment. Now, gay couples have gone from not being able to marry in any state to being able to marry in all 50 in little more than a decade.

The time from the trigger point to federal action is even shorter. It took 19 years for the Supreme Court to follow a California court in striking down interracial marriage bans. The Supreme Court struck down bans on same-sex marriage only two years after its first pivotal decision on the issue.

http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-pace-of-social-change/

Yes.
Thanks for the interesting topic 2A.

To the racially oppressed, discriminated against, change could not take place soon enough.

And yet:
within my living memory:
- the top rap music artist was White (Vanilla Ice)
- the top golfer was Black (Tiger W)
- the centuries long tradition of White male presidents has been broken (Obama)
- same sex marriage is now the law of the land ...

"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it." George Bernard Shaw

Thanks George.
Lookit:
We've blundered.
And some of our blunders were terrible blunders!

But from where I sit, it looks like as a People, we're sincerely trying.
It's not a perfect union.
But June 29, 2015 it's a little more perfect.

Thanks again 2A.

Great and Interesting. Not a US National but Thanks for sharing.

Hello Ravvyaa,

Welcome to m2.

I've wondered about the U.S. discriminations, in context of those elsewhere.

India's caste system for example.
I gather there's been political effort to get rid of that.

But I've never been there, and don't really know how successfully / completely it has been addressed.

The U.S. still has problems.

I thank god I'm not forced to try to endure the cesspool of human misery in Syria & ISIL / elsewhere.

Thanks again for joining us Ravvyaa.
Visit often.
Post a lot.

This is why I rarely use the quotes of famous people, which is usually the height of laziness and pretension. I make up my own quotes.

Patriotism is not necessarily the conviction that my country is superior because I was born in it. Patriotism is the realization that my country it superior because I have lived in other countries, traveled to all 7 continents and I am proud to live in my adopted country because I know it is the greatest country in the world, the U.S. of A.!!!

Piffle.
I can be MUCH more lazy & pretentious than that!

Candidly,
the pretense is omitting the attribute.

I may be a mental midget.
But as I stand on the shoulders of giants, I'm sometimes mistaken for being nearly adequate stature.

On topic:

By what criterion?

Asians tend to score better on academic tests.
China is larger in land-mass.
South Africa has more zebras.

Loyalty to one's nation and People may not be a serious problem.

But believing they are superior to all others?

Every People, and every person on Earth has reason for pride.
But as the Holy Bible warns, pride goeth before a fall.

I take no shame in having pride; while retaining it with dignity.

How is it the greatest? My dear man, where to I begin? It is obvious. You can start with the Constitution to its beautiful landscape to its melting pot to its aid to other countries to its being a trendsetter for all others to its democratic process to its global leadership. Granted, our leaders have not always been perfect but we all stumble from time to time. The foundations on which the USA are based are strong and admired by all.

well,old George had it bassackward,like many of the other things!

Envied, perhaps.

But it's a mistake to conflate subjective preference (which you & I may share) with objective intrinsic superiority.

By what criterion?
- Wealth? The U.S. does not have the highest per capita life on Earth.
- Happiness? What I've read indicates that belongs to Denmark.
- etc.

I like the U.S. too.
I live here.
As a teen I volunteered during time of War, to serve in the U.S. military.

So do not mistake my scientific dispassion for lack of appreciation.

I don't think it's appropriate to gloat, and our friends and allies in France, the U.K., Germany, and China have reasons to be proud as well.

I'll skip the word "better", and stick with the word "different".

TY one & all for your input; and what I enjoyed and brought it all front & center to me was the 'VISUAL IMAGE' of the graphs and how much of 'ALL THOSE 6' hot button issues have occurred just since 'I' was born!

We live in a remarkable world and our technology has 'KICKED A$$' and we 'ALL' are so more able to:
a) do want we want for entertainment/social settings
b) be what we want for job
c) marry whom ever we chose too
d) go where ever we so desire to live
Certainly there are things that need 'FIXING/CHANGE' but look at that graph for the speed in which most of our 'EQUALITY' social issues have occurred and it rocks my total being

This topic and those graphs just really hit my this morning; and for all the hate and vitriol that gets pushed & pulled - shoved & spewed...we continue as a GREAT NATION TO STUMBLE FORWARD and do great things for 'ALL OF OUR CITIZENS'!



YELLING - WHOSE NEXT ~~~

Gloat? Merely semantics. I will be proud of whatever I wish, especially the USA!!! One more reason is that everyone would give their eye tooth to live here. And I am tired of seeing my country bashed by people with penis envy.

I should have highlighted this about the USA:

How is it the greatest? My dear man, where to I begin? It is obvious. You can start with the Constitution to its beautiful landscape to its melting pot to its aid to other countries to its being a trendsetter for all others to its democratic process to its global leadership. Granted, our leaders have not always been perfect but we all stumble from time to time. The foundations on which the USA are based are strong and admired by all.

**BING** BING** We have a 'SOAP BOX' winner right here!!!

Please make the prize a sexy Canadian man. Pretty please with cherry on top...

Well, I would if I could; I found mine quite by accident and I suppose it would only be gracious to help a girl out ~~~
'POWER OF POSITIVE THOUGHT AND PRAYER'

I'll put you on my 'Daily Meditation' list --- how's that

'everyone'? a bit of a stretch,, many other countries have patriotic people who wouldnt live here for all the money in the world...

George Bernard Shaw was a disgrace.

He was a marxist that supported eugenics and was a huge fan of Hitler. He was a racist and a bigot. He wanted the lower classes sterilized or exterminated.

''The Nazi movement is in many respects one which has my warm sympathy; in fact, I might fairly claim that Herr Hitler has repudiated Karl Marx to enlist under the banner of Bernard Shaw. You can therefore imagine my dismay when at the most critical moment Herr Hitler and the Nazis went mad on the Jewish question.'' (Gibbs, p. 355, quoting an interview with Haydon Church, Sunday Dispatch, June 4th, 1933). Not because this was unjustified, but politically unwise. A wiser way to contain the threat was to create a Jewish state. ''The Jews are worse than my own people. Those Jews who still want to be the chosen race (chosen by the late Lord Balfour) can go to Palestine and stew in their own juice. The rest had better stop being Jews and start being human beings. This is the real enemy, the invader from the East, the Druze, the ruffian, the oriental parasite; in a word: the Jew.''

(London Morning Post, December 3, 1925)

http://www.smh.com.au/business/wanted-a-new-economic-theory-20090205-7z7h.html

Oriental parasite? I am a European parasite.

Yes, we all know they don't count.