Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Explore – The demographics of gun ownership.

Click through for detailed breakdowns by age, race, etc. (And yes, it's mostly an old, white, Red State thing.)

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4 comments:

  1. It seems like the Republicans never change their mind. If you are a Republican then it's about 50/50 that you own a gun regardless of any other factor.

    I wonder what causes the inverse-correlation in the above graph? Most striking in the early 80s when Reagan was President where there is a sharp peak and valley for the two parties.

    Interesting,
    Randy

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  2. The data could also imply that gun owners have been changing parties from Democrat to Republican, and the inverse.

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  3. ... or that Democrats who are gun owners are increasingly more reluctant to disclose the fact to surveys.

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  4. P, that makes the most sense. Those correlations must be people switching parties which means that it's *not* primarily more Republicans buying guns.

    Which makes the data a bit less meaningful.

    Randy

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