You Would Choose Now — Excerpts

Short excerpts from You Would Choose Now: Measuring America’s Progress Toward Fairness and Tolerance.

Chapter 2 — From beliefs to policy¶

• It Was Already Illegal? — ANES job-discrimination protection (VCF0876)

• Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell — ANES military service (VCF0877)

• The Adoption Curve — ANES adoption by gay couples (VCF0878)

• Same-Sex Marriage — GSS same-sex marriage (marsame)

• Where Do Civil Rights Come From? — how the four policies moved through state and federal governments

• Variable results digest — chapter + inventory survey stack by topic

Chapter 3 — Gender¶

• A Woman’s Place — the chapter opening, with ANES women’s equal role (VCF0834) by sex

• Who Opposed the ERA? — draft: STOP ERA, and gender gaps that reversed across generations (VCF0834, fehome, fepres, VCF0225)

Chapter 4 — Race¶

• Variable results digest — hypothetical-workplace items (should / is / why)

Chapter 7 — Poverty and wealth¶

• Variable results digest — strong-candidate survey items by topic (template for other chapters)

Blog posts¶

• The Religious Composition of the United States, 1972–2024 — affiliation, Protestant traditions, smaller groups, and cohort/period decompositions