According to Malcolm Gladwell’s busy brain, there is a point in a trend or movement where there it becomes, in a sense, a pandemic. It rushes through society at a much faster speed than ever before, and, due to complex or unknown causes, it changes everything around it. This is called the tipping point, similar to how water spills all over after a glass is tipped too far. The marriage equality movement might have hit that point.
Based off of the chart below, we can see that the movement has made tremendous inroads in a little over a decade.
What was a fringe issue 14 years ago is now a national topic that is rapidly gaining favor. The states with the highest favorability toward allowing same-sex marriage are no surprise (NY, CA, CT…etc.). What is striking, however, is how these states, along with typically more conservative states like Nevada, Colorado, Alaska and Montana, have nearly doubled their support of marriage equality in the past 14 years. Considering that the issue has gone from the limelight to the shadows various times during this period, this growth in support is impressive when compared with other civil rights movements in the past.
It will be interesting to see what this graph will look like 4 years from now, when Obama is finishing his first term.
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