For the first time, there are equal amounts of social conservatives and liberals

A new Gallup poll released today finds that for the first time, equal numbers of Americans self-identify as socially conservative and socially liberal, with 31 percent placing themselves in each category. On economics, however, conservatives still lead by a 20-point margin:

This change is consistent with increasing support for gay marriage and the legalization of marijuana, while opinions on abortion show no such significant swing.

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.