Conservatism TON Social fand Cultural Issues
Opinions on these issues are related to one another; for example, most of those who take the most conservative positions on abortion also oppose gay marriage, and a similar pattern is seen for each pair of items. But there is also a great deal of inconsistency. Just over one-in-ten Americans (12%) takes the conservative position on all of these items, and a somewhat larger number (22%) take conservative positions on none of the items. Thus, much of the public falls between the extremes on this collection of issues. About one-third of the respondents (34%) are squarely in the middle, taking two or three conservative positions out of a possible five; 16% are mostly liberal (taking only one conservative opinion) and 16% are mostly conservative (taking four conservative opinions).
Conservatism TON Social  | fand Cultural Issues  | 22%  | 16% 17% 17% 16%  | 12%  | 1 2113 4 A115  | Number ofcons ervative opinions ex  | pressed on five social and cultural issues 