{
  "alt": "Dumbbell chart with eight rows, four census regions and four community types, and two dots per row for Democrats and Republicans with interval lines. In 2016 to 2024 the Republican dot is to the right of the Democratic dot in every row; the gap runs from {fact:pl_min_gap_l} points to {fact:pl_max_gap_l} points. A second view shows 1973 to 1980, when the gap runs from {fact:pl_min_gap_e} to {fact:pl_max_gap_e} points and its interval includes zero in {fact:pl_n_zero_e} of {fact:pl_n_groups} rows.",
  "caption": "In every row the Republican dot is to the right of the Democratic dot, and the gap is smallest in point terms in rural areas, where Democrats are most likely to have a gun and the cells are small. Each row joins the Democratic share (open dot) to the Republican share (filled dot) with 95% confidence intervals. The second view shows the 1973 to 1980 surveys, when the gap was near zero in several rows.",
  "data": [
    {
      "dem": 22.6735,
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      "dem_low": 19.4815,
      "kind": "Region",
      "n1": 851,
      "n2": 483,
      "period": "1973 to 1980",
      "place": "Northeast",
      "rep": 39.4286,
      "rep_high": 44.243,
      "rep_low": 34.6142
    },
    {
      "dem": 14.377,
      "dem_high": 17.3925,
      "dem_low": 11.3615,
      "kind": "Region",
      "n1": 944,
      "n2": 469,
      "period": "2016 to 2024",
      "place": "Northeast",
      "rep": 41.9803,
      "rep_high": 47.8337,
      "rep_low": 36.1269
    },
    {
      "dem": 51.2129,
      "dem_high": 54.462,
      "dem_low": 47.9638,
      "kind": "Region",
      "n1": 1143,
      "n2": 653,
      "period": "1973 to 1980",
      "place": "Midwest",
      "rep": 56.9569,
      "rep_high": 61.0649,
      "rep_low": 52.849
    },
    {
      "dem": 30.4886,
      "dem_high": 34.0625,
      "dem_low": 26.9146,
      "kind": "Region",
      "n1": 1204,
      "n2": 918,
      "period": "2016 to 2024",
      "place": "Midwest",
      "rep": 55.8326,
      "rep_high": 60.6184,
      "rep_low": 51.0467
    },
    {
      "dem": 61.4113,
      "dem_high": 64.3644,
      "dem_low": 58.4581,
      "kind": "Region",
      "n1": 1354,
      "n2": 708,
      "period": "1973 to 1980",
      "place": "South",
      "rep": 67.3001,
      "rep_high": 71.2399,
      "rep_low": 63.3604
    },
    {
      "dem": 30.291,
      "dem_high": 33.0719,
      "dem_low": 27.5102,
      "kind": "Region",
      "n1": 1838,
      "n2": 1557,
      "period": "2016 to 2024",
      "place": "South",
      "rep": 58.2384,
      "rep_high": 61.5296,
      "rep_low": 54.9472
    },
    {
      "dem": 47.1544,
      "dem_high": 51.2865,
      "dem_low": 43.0224,
      "kind": "Region",
      "n1": 706,
      "n2": 376,
      "period": "1973 to 1980",
      "place": "West",
      "rep": 47.1143,
      "rep_high": 52.7148,
      "rep_low": 41.5138
    },
    {
      "dem": 23.5855,
      "dem_high": 26.744,
      "dem_low": 20.4271,
      "kind": "Region",
      "n1": 1225,
      "n2": 678,
      "period": "2016 to 2024",
      "place": "West",
      "rep": 46.3587,
      "rep_high": 51.3891,
      "rep_low": 41.3284
    },
    {
      "dem": 33.8882,
      "dem_high": 36.7975,
      "dem_low": 30.9788,
      "kind": "Community type",
      "n1": 1379,
      "n2": 516,
      "period": "1973 to 1980",
      "place": "Central city",
      "rep": 42.949,
      "rep_high": 47.8468,
      "rep_low": 38.0512
    },
    {
      "dem": 18.9099,
      "dem_high": 21.3479,
      "dem_low": 16.4719,
      "kind": "Community type",
      "n1": 1815,
      "n2": 794,
      "period": "2016 to 2024",
      "place": "Central city",
      "rep": 39.5694,
      "rep_high": 44.6698,
      "rep_low": 34.469
    },
    {
      "dem": 44.3415,
      "dem_high": 47.2073,
      "dem_low": 41.4757,
      "kind": "Community type",
      "n1": 1444,
      "n2": 896,
      "period": "1973 to 1980",
      "place": "Suburb",
      "rep": 48.3071,
      "rep_high": 51.9079,
      "rep_low": 44.7063
    },
    {
      "dem": 26.2764,
      "dem_high": 28.4479,
      "dem_low": 24.1049,
      "kind": "Community type",
      "n1": 2863,
      "n2": 2149,
      "period": "2016 to 2024",
      "place": "Suburb",
      "rep": 54.1092,
      "rep_high": 56.92,
      "rep_low": 51.2984
    },
    {
      "dem": 57.7002,
      "dem_high": 62.3081,
      "dem_low": 53.0923,
      "kind": "Community type",
      "n1": 523,
      "n2": 298,
      "period": "1973 to 1980",
      "place": "Small city or town",
      "rep": 56.2366,
      "rep_high": 62.4454,
      "rep_low": 50.0277
    },
    {
      "dem": 31.3874,
      "dem_high": 38.5144,
      "dem_low": 24.2604,
      "kind": "Community type",
      "n1": 266,
      "n2": 284,
      "period": "2016 to 2024",
      "place": "Small city or town",
      "rep": 60.6859,
      "rep_high": 68.1379,
      "rep_low": 53.2338
    },
    {
      "dem": 74.8621,
      "dem_high": 78.4128,
      "dem_low": 71.3113,
      "kind": "Community type",
      "n1": 708,
      "n2": 510,
      "period": "1973 to 1980",
      "place": "Rural area",
      "rep": 76.9982,
      "rep_high": 81.016,
      "rep_low": 72.9803
    },
    {
      "dem": 57.1132,
      "dem_high": 64.5666,
      "dem_low": 49.6597,
      "kind": "Community type",
      "n1": 267,
      "n2": 395,
      "period": "2016 to 2024",
      "place": "Rural area",
      "rep": 71.0773,
      "rep_high": 76.9475,
      "rep_low": 65.2071
    }
  ],
  "id": "place_gap",
  "notes": [
    "Community type groups the NORC size-of-place code: central cities of large and medium metropolitan areas, their suburbs and unincorporated areas, small cities and towns outside those areas, and rural areas (villages, hamlets and open country). Region is the census region of interview.",
    "Years are pooled after rescaling each year's weights to average one. A party cell needs at least 100 respondents and an effective sample of at least 100."
  ],
  "source": "General Social Survey, 1973-1980 and 2016-2024; weighted (weight_use, rescaled to average one within each survey year before years are pooled)",
  "spec": {
    "deltaLabel": "Republican minus Democratic (points)",
    "group": "kind",
    "hi1": "dem_high",
    "hi2": "rep_high",
    "label1": "Democrats",
    "label2": "Republicans",
    "lo1": "dem_low",
    "lo2": "rep_low",
    "n1": "n1",
    "n2": "n2",
    "sort": "data",
    "x1": "dem",
    "x2": "rep",
    "xDomain": [
      0,
      90
    ],
    "xFormat": {
      "digits": 0
    },
    "xLabel": "Share with a gun in the home (%)",
    "y": "place"
  },
  "subtitle": "Share with a gun in the home among Democrats and Republicans, including leaners, by census region and community type, GSS surveys of 2016 to 2024 pooled; 95% intervals",
  "table": {
    "columns": [
      {
        "key": "period",
        "label": "Surveys"
      },
      {
        "key": "kind",
        "label": "Kind of place"
      },
      {
        "key": "place",
        "label": "Place"
      },
      {
        "format": {
          "digits": 1
        },
        "key": "dem",
        "label": "Democrats (%)"
      },
      {
        "format": {
          "digits": 1
        },
        "key": "dem_low",
        "label": "Lower"
      },
      {
        "format": {
          "digits": 1
        },
        "key": "dem_high",
        "label": "Upper"
      },
      {
        "format": {
          "thousands": true
        },
        "key": "n1",
        "label": "Democrats counted"
      },
      {
        "format": {
          "digits": 1
        },
        "key": "rep",
        "label": "Republicans (%)"
      },
      {
        "format": {
          "digits": 1
        },
        "key": "rep_low",
        "label": "Lower"
      },
      {
        "format": {
          "digits": 1
        },
        "key": "rep_high",
        "label": "Upper"
      },
      {
        "format": {
          "thousands": true
        },
        "key": "n2",
        "label": "Republicans counted"
      }
    ]
  },
  "title": "Republicans were more likely than Democrats to live in a household with a gun in every region and kind of community",
  "type": "dumbbell",
  "views": [
    {
      "filter": {
        "period": "2016 to 2024"
      },
      "id": "late",
      "label": "2016 to 2024"
    },
    {
      "caption": "The gap is near zero in the West and in small cities and rural areas and largest in the Northeast among regions and in central cities among community types; Democrats are least likely to have a gun in the Northeast. Each row joins the Democratic share (open dot) to the Republican share (filled dot) with 95% confidence intervals.",
      "filter": {
        "period": "1973 to 1980"
      },
      "id": "early",
      "label": "1973 to 1980",
      "title": "In 1973 to 1980 the party gap in household gun ownership was largest in the Northeast and in central cities and near zero in the West and in rural areas"
    }
  ],
  "width": "wide"
}