The — Real Or Perceived — American Values Shift

How real is it? Is this "cooked books media divisiveness?"

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 slate of charts is based on a mid-2023 poll/survey from Wall Street Journal.

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

• Having children

• Community involvement

• Making money

We’ll go in order.