Gay Marriage Is Here, The Predictions Are In

The people at the Map Scroll turned what Nate Silver, the man behind fivethirtyeight.com, has worked on and created a model predicting when various states would legalize gay marriage. Alaska in 2009?

The main variables were:

"The year in which [an amendment to ban same-sex marriage] was voted upon; the percentage of adults in 2008 Gallup tracking surveys who said that religion was an important part of their daily lives; and the percentage of white evangelicals in the state."

The South living up to the tremendously low expectations we have in them.



Source: fivethirtyeight.com