Widespread misperceptions of long-term attitude change

source: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2107260119

Most voters would have vehemently rejected a Black presidential candidate in the 1970s; a few decades later they elected Barack #Obama twice. #Climate #change, denied and dismissed even 20 years ago, is finally accepted as a real and serious problem by most Americans. Belief in #God has gone from ubiquitous to uncommon. A deluge of mass shootings has sapped what used to be near-universal support for #gun rights. Meanwhile, Donald #Trump’s presidency reversed long-growing support for #immigration.

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