The — Real Or Perceived — American Values Shift

What do we make of this?

You can find more context on the above chart, including some of the data being broken down by age or by liberal vs. conservative leaning, within this Twitter thread:

The full article and underlying survey data, which is quite likely behind a paywall, is here:

WSJ News Exclusive | America Pulls Back From Values That Once Defined It, WSJ-NORC Poll Finds

So let’s dive into this a little bit. Obviously all stats can be taken with a grain of salt, you need to look at method of contact, and honestly the sample size on this wasn’t tremendous. There’s some overt flaws before we even dive in, but we’ve seen a few similar things recently, so maybe it’s worth a brief discussion.

Here are the “big five” we’re going to discuss:

• Patriotism
• Religion