The rise of "No Religion" in the US. This is the graph that has most surprised me this year. Via @wesyangpic.twitter.com/s5UukYy6Ba
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The jump in no religion happened after the cold war. Perhaps people were feeling more free to express atheism after communism was defeated?
Maybe. Another possibility is that the web (&, more broadly, the internet) started to rapidly grow in the early 1990s. I suspect reading the original sources (from GSS and Pew) would help a lot here!
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I'm curious how this correlates with Party ID. Over the same time period people are increasingly reluctant to associate themselves with a party label, despite strongly partisan behavior. Rugged individualism is strong in our culture, but doesn't fit natural social human behavior.
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That was also my first thought, the acceleration around 2005 also lines up with the advent of social media.
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The rise of the web is surely a major contributor. Think about being an atheist in a small Texas town where everyone is Baptist or Catholic (even a big city like Dallas). Suddenly, you can connect to a newsgroup or forum or chatroom - and you learn that you are NOT the only one.
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