{
  "alt": "Two panels, one for each family of speakers, each with dots and intervals for 1976 to 1994, 2008 to 2018 and 2021. In the party view the gap for speakers objectionable to conservatives moves from below zero to about zero, while the gap for speakers objectionable to liberals stays below zero and is farthest below zero in 2021.",
  "caption": "Each dot is the gap in the average share of a family of speakers that a respondent would allow, Democrats minus Republicans, and each panel is one family. In the panel for speakers that conservatives object to, the dot moves from left of zero in 1976 to 1994 to right of zero in 2008 to 2018 and 2021, with intervals that include zero in those two periods. In the panel for speakers that liberals object to, every dot is left of zero and the 2021 dot is farthest left. Two combined averages of the five speakers are in the data table and the text. Gold marks the family of speakers that liberals are expected to object to (the racist and the militarist, the top panel), and green marks the family that conservatives are expected to object to (the Communist, the anti-religionist and the homosexual man, the bottom panel).",
  "data": [
    {
      "conf_high": -2.926,
      "conf_low": -6.108,
      "estimate": -4.517,
      "family": "Objectionable to liberals",
      "grouping": "party",
      "n": 15078,
      "period": "1976 to 1994",
      "plotted": "yes"
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 9.563,
      "conf_low": 5.835,
      "estimate": 7.699,
      "family": "Objectionable to liberals",
      "grouping": "ideology",
      "n": 10246,
      "period": "1976 to 1994",
      "plotted": "yes"
    },
    {
      "conf_high": -2.913,
      "conf_low": -7.578,
      "estimate": -5.246,
      "family": "Objectionable to liberals",
      "grouping": "party",
      "n": 6991,
      "period": "2008 to 2018",
      "plotted": "yes"
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 6.114,
      "conf_low": 0.961,
      "estimate": 3.537,
      "family": "Objectionable to liberals",
      "grouping": "ideology",
      "n": 5250,
      "period": "2008 to 2018",
      "plotted": "yes"
    },
    {
      "conf_high": -10.032,
      "conf_low": -22.53,
      "estimate": -16.281,
      "family": "Objectionable to liberals",
      "grouping": "party",
      "n": 982,
      "period": "2021 (mostly web)",
      "plotted": "yes"
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 1.8,
      "conf_low": -11.872,
      "estimate": -5.036,
      "family": "Objectionable to liberals",
      "grouping": "ideology",
      "n": 833,
      "period": "2021 (mostly web)",
      "plotted": "yes"
    },
    {
      "conf_high": -2.772,
      "conf_low": -5.722,
      "estimate": -4.247,
      "family": "Objectionable to conservatives",
      "grouping": "party",
      "n": 14809,
      "period": "1976 to 1994",
      "plotted": "yes"
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 11.396,
      "conf_low": 7.988,
      "estimate": 9.692,
      "family": "Objectionable to conservatives",
      "grouping": "ideology",
      "n": 10130,
      "period": "1976 to 1994",
      "plotted": "yes"
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 2.291,
      "conf_low": -1.396,
      "estimate": 0.447,
      "family": "Objectionable to conservatives",
      "grouping": "party",
      "n": 6885,
      "period": "2008 to 2018",
      "plotted": "yes"
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 10.249,
      "conf_low": 6.295,
      "estimate": 8.272,
      "family": "Objectionable to conservatives",
      "grouping": "ideology",
      "n": 5169,
      "period": "2008 to 2018",
      "plotted": "yes"
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 7.732,
      "conf_low": -1.378,
      "estimate": 3.177,
      "family": "Objectionable to conservatives",
      "grouping": "party",
      "n": 976,
      "period": "2021 (mostly web)",
      "plotted": "yes"
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 18.135,
      "conf_low": 9.037,
      "estimate": 13.586,
      "family": "Objectionable to conservatives",
      "grouping": "ideology",
      "n": 826,
      "period": "2021 (mostly web)",
      "plotted": "yes"
    },
    {
      "conf_high": -2.876,
      "conf_low": -5.681,
      "estimate": -4.279,
      "family": "All five, each speaker counts once",
      "grouping": "party",
      "n": 14468,
      "period": "1976 to 1994",
      "plotted": "no"
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 10.496,
      "conf_low": 7.233,
      "estimate": 8.864,
      "family": "All five, each speaker counts once",
      "grouping": "ideology",
      "n": 9907,
      "period": "1976 to 1994",
      "plotted": "no"
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 0.03,
      "conf_low": -3.683,
      "estimate": -1.826,
      "family": "All five, each speaker counts once",
      "grouping": "party",
      "n": 6780,
      "period": "2008 to 2018",
      "plotted": "no"
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 8.262,
      "conf_low": 4.254,
      "estimate": 6.258,
      "family": "All five, each speaker counts once",
      "grouping": "ideology",
      "n": 5102,
      "period": "2008 to 2018",
      "plotted": "no"
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 0.151,
      "conf_low": -9.341,
      "estimate": -4.595,
      "family": "All five, each speaker counts once",
      "grouping": "party",
      "n": 969,
      "period": "2021 (mostly web)",
      "plotted": "no"
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 11.044,
      "conf_low": 1.258,
      "estimate": 6.151,
      "family": "All five, each speaker counts once",
      "grouping": "ideology",
      "n": 824,
      "period": "2021 (mostly web)",
      "plotted": "no"
    },
    {
      "conf_high": -2.87,
      "conf_low": -5.692,
      "estimate": -4.281,
      "family": "All five, each side counts once",
      "grouping": "party",
      "n": 14468,
      "period": "1976 to 1994",
      "plotted": "no"
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 10.294,
      "conf_low": 7.007,
      "estimate": 8.65,
      "family": "All five, each side counts once",
      "grouping": "ideology",
      "n": 9907,
      "period": "1976 to 1994",
      "plotted": "no"
    },
    {
      "conf_high": -0.47,
      "conf_low": -4.277,
      "estimate": -2.374,
      "family": "All five, each side counts once",
      "grouping": "party",
      "n": 6780,
      "period": "2008 to 2018",
      "plotted": "no"
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 7.876,
      "conf_low": 3.753,
      "estimate": 5.814,
      "family": "All five, each side counts once",
      "grouping": "ideology",
      "n": 5102,
      "period": "2008 to 2018",
      "plotted": "no"
    },
    {
      "conf_high": -1.645,
      "conf_low": -11.475,
      "estimate": -6.56,
      "family": "All five, each side counts once",
      "grouping": "party",
      "n": 969,
      "period": "2021 (mostly web)",
      "plotted": "no"
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 9.413,
      "conf_low": -0.839,
      "estimate": 4.287,
      "family": "All five, each side counts once",
      "grouping": "ideology",
      "n": 824,
      "period": "2021 (mostly web)",
      "plotted": "no"
    }
  ],
  "id": "family_gaps",
  "notes": [
    "The family of speakers objectionable to conservatives is the Communist, the anti-religionist and the homosexual man, and the family objectionable to liberals is the racist and the militarist. A respondent's family value is the share of that family's speakers he or she would allow, for respondents who answered all of the family's items. The Muslim clergyman is left out because the item began in 2008.",
    "The data table also lists two combined averages of all five speakers that are not plotted: one counts each speaker once and one counts each family once.",
    "The GSS moved mostly online in 2021 (see the methods note at the end of the chapter). Estimates from 2021 on mix web and interviewer-administered respondents unless a figure says otherwise."
  ],
  "source": "General Social Survey, 1972-2024 cumulative file; weighted (weight_use); 95% intervals on the effective sample size",
  "spec": {
    "colors": {
      "Objectionable to conservatives": "cat1",
      "Objectionable to liberals": "cat2"
    },
    "facet": "family",
    "group": "family",
    "hi": "conf_high",
    "lo": "conf_low",
    "n": "n",
    "reference": 0,
    "referenceLabel": "No gap",
    "sort": "data",
    "x": "estimate",
    "xDomain": [
      -25,
      10
    ],
    "xFormat": {
      "digits": 1,
      "signed": true
    },
    "xLabel": "Democrats minus Republicans (points)",
    "y": "period"
  },
  "subtitle": "Gap between groups in the average share of a family of speakers a respondent would allow to speak, in points, by family and period, with 95% intervals",
  "table": {
    "columns": [
      {
        "key": "family",
        "label": "Family"
      },
      {
        "key": "period",
        "label": "Period"
      },
      {
        "key": "grouping",
        "label": "Grouping"
      },
      {
        "format": {
          "digits": 1,
          "signed": true
        },
        "key": "estimate",
        "label": "Gap (points)"
      },
      {
        "format": {
          "digits": 1,
          "signed": true
        },
        "key": "conf_low",
        "label": "Low"
      },
      {
        "format": {
          "digits": 1,
          "signed": true
        },
        "key": "conf_high",
        "label": "High"
      },
      {
        "format": {
          "thousands": true
        },
        "key": "n",
        "label": "Respondents"
      }
    ]
  },
  "title": "By 2008 to 2018 the party gap on speakers that conservatives object to was {fact:fam_con_pg_late} points, and on speakers that liberals object to {fact:fam_lib_pg_late}",
  "type": "dot",
  "views": [
    {
      "caption": "Each dot is the gap in the average share of a family of speakers that a respondent would allow, Democrats minus Republicans, and each panel is one family. In the panel for speakers that conservatives object to, the dot moves from left of zero in 1976 to 1994 to right of zero in 2008 to 2018 and 2021, with intervals that include zero in those two periods. In the panel for speakers that liberals object to, every dot is left of zero and the 2021 dot is farthest left. Two combined averages of the five speakers are in the data table and the text. Gold marks the family of speakers that liberals are expected to object to (the racist and the militarist, the top panel), and green marks the family that conservatives are expected to object to (the Communist, the anti-religionist and the homosexual man, the bottom panel).",
      "filter": {
        "grouping": "party",
        "plotted": "yes"
      },
      "id": "party",
      "label": "By party",
      "spec": {
        "xDomain": [
          -25,
          10
        ],
        "xLabel": "Democrats minus Republicans (points)"
      },
      "title": "By 2008 to 2018 the party gap on speakers that conservatives object to was {fact:fam_con_pg_late} points, and on speakers that liberals object to {fact:fam_lib_pg_late}"
    },
    {
      "caption": "Each dot is the gap in the average share of a family of speakers that a respondent would allow, liberals minus conservatives, and each panel is one family. Every 1976 to 1994 and 2008 to 2018 dot sits right of zero, and the dot for speakers that liberals object to is farther left in the second period. In 2021, a mostly web wave, that dot is left of zero and its interval includes zero. Gold marks the family of speakers that liberals are expected to object to (the racist and the militarist, the top panel), and green marks the family that conservatives are expected to object to (the Communist, the anti-religionist and the homosexual man, the bottom panel).",
      "filter": {
        "grouping": "ideology",
        "plotted": "yes"
      },
      "id": "ideology",
      "label": "By ideology",
      "spec": {
        "xDomain": [
          -15,
          25
        ],
        "xLabel": "Liberals minus conservatives (points)"
      },
      "title": "Liberals allowed both families of speakers more often than conservatives did in 1976 to 1994 and in 2008 to 2018"
    }
  ],
  "width": "wide"
}