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number 29% in america today. gaup rights americans were about as likely to say they were liberal and conservative when it comes to social issues. this year ts a advantage due to the shifting at a time a social issues such as transgender rights, abortion and other concerns are pmint in public debate. maybe fostering environment more bearable to pass and leaning social legislation they write especially in republican dominated states. that from gallup. will go through more of the poll in the first hour of the show. some headlines from the pole. this from newsweek, surprising change in sociay conservative americans is how they describe

it. usa today, maybe desantis is onto something with his insight woke fight. conservative federalist, new gallup poll debunks myth of an embeddable left wing cultural change -- inevitable left wing cultural change. phone lines as usual. we'll get to your calls throughout this first hour. we start in brownsville, texas. joe. independent. good morning. what do you think about the results? host: i disagree -- caller: i disagree with that. actually since reagan, reagan

destroyed the unions. from reagan to this, republicans -- trump is a good example. he copied reagan. make america again. you remember that? [inaudible] i'm sure russia -- we have more guns than any country. 330 million people. we have more guns than that. if you're good at math, think about it. host: joe in texas. this is david in maryland on the line for democrats. what you think of the findings of the poll? are you seeing that in maryland?

are you seeing this rise in social conservatism or you are? caller: i think yes, absolutely. over the history we have gone back and forth between being liberal and conservative. i think it is a natural force of history. we're going to see it going on indefinitely. i think the major problem i see is that separatism is tight economic -- conservatism is tied to economics we still have a country where the federal government has not going after the people, top percent, they do not pay taxes. we are short $250 million a year. then we fight over the budget. as a result of that fight, people become more conservative. it is usually round economics.

if the government were to follow through and have people pay their fair share of taxes rather than the poor and middle-class, then get stuck with having to work two jobs, not being able to send their children to school, not being able to be in the home to raise their children, then we would have some the social issues we have. it is really important that the federal government follows through and provide funding to programs that can support child programs, school lunch programs, all the other things we want to do socially without putting economic stress on those in middle class who then become more conservative, usually as a reflection or response to the economics. host: on that point of economy impacting social outlook, albert

on facebook agreeing with that saying in times of economic instability people tend to be more conservative. the poll we are talking about, the caller was also talking about historic trends say it goes back and forth over time. let me give you a visual from gallup. only in recent years that more americans had identified as being more socially liberal this socially conservative. this chart is a result of this question that gallup asked thinking about social issues, would you say your views are very conservative, conservative, moderate, liberal or very liberal? the greenline at the type answered very conservative and conservative. going back to the -- the year before 2000. socially conservative were usually well ahead of those

identified as being socially liberal. you can see the change taking place around 2015, 2018 when those numbers started to flip and more people identifying as more socially liberal and went back and forth and now, 38% of americans say they are either very conservative or conservative. 29% are saying they are very liberal or liberal. this is the gallup poll they got attention this week. we are getting your reaction to it and also want to hear what you think are the major issues -- social issues in the country today. john in d.c., republican. what do you think of the results? caller: i think a lot of it is the size of government. conservative people want to take more personal responsibility. having children as a sacrifice. why do you expect the government to babysit your kids?

there should be one parent that stays home during the childbearing years, figure out how you're going to manage finances, and you sacrifice. you do not expect the government to raise her children. that is ridiculous. host: bill in norcross, georgia. independent. what do you think? caller: thank you for taking my call. i have not seen an increase in my area in conservative in the area i live in, but i will say, i feel strongly that the most important critical problem we have in this country is the fact that we have -- we have no respect for law and order. people today not really care about the truth as long as they get what they want.

this troubles me a great deal. surely we are always going to have conservatives and liberals and people who talk about taxes but our major concern, as i am seeing more people armed and i see more and more people who are feeling that they are in danger. that is one of the most critical things i feel this country is being faced with. it is a sad time for me. it is very difficult to think of your fellow citizens that are about to pick up arms and go to war with each other for any little silly think. what we need to do is to focus on this and try to avoid a totally, you might say, another civil war.

host: bill not seeing it. mark melvin come former democratic poster very much involved in congressional races, also opinion contributor for the hill newspaper not seeing it as well. this is column in response to the gallup polls saying social conservatism rising depends on the issues. harish -- gallup startling conclusion based on a single tion asking, about social issues, would you say your issues are conservative moderate, or liberal. whatever social issues might be it is impossible to imagine voters consulting a tally on these issues to assess their social issue ideology. the headline grabbing questions assumes there some agreed-upon set of social issues. there is not, he drives. people have insight into how the views have evolved. they do not create he writes.

-- they do not, he writes. mark, new york. democrat. good morning. caller: good morning. my point is this, i am a conservative. we should get rid of -- suspend all of the subsidies for all the republican back entities and big government. that is what big government is. have a great day. take care. host: chuck. charlotte, north carolina on the republican line. what you think of the biggest social issues in the country? [inaudible] and in texas. good morning.

what do you think are the biggest social issues? caller: [indiscernible] what is happening right now, people are realizing what have we done and what they have done is they have given over the raising of their children to government programming, schools, what they are finding out the children are being indoctrinated. that is why people are becoming more socially conservative because what is happening now is there coming for our children. they are saying children to make decisions about whether or not they are male or female when they are three years old. a child came to their parent or said they want to eat candy three times a day for every male are they going to let them do that? there say it is important to let it drag queens dancing in

motorways right in front of children. that is ok to put these grown men in front of children. you have naked men on the lawn of the white house. you have naked men to have altered their breasts and they are dancing in front of the white house. you are the president saying it is ok -- have a president saying it is ok. targeted marketing bathing suits to little boys to test their genitalia so they can pretend they are not little boys. that is the problem. when moms, dads are finding out these going on in schools they do not want their children to be exposed to and that is what is happening. when you come for people's children and they realize what is happening, that is when they draw the line. i'm glad you let me speak. host: anne in texas.

for those who may not be familiar with the what happened on the lawn of the white house, it is referred to in this article in washington post about president biden walking a tightrope when it comes to political transgender rights. the administration approach to transgender issues sometimes been cautious, reaction from advocates makes when proposed a role in april prohibiting schools from issuing blanket bans on treasures or athletes but also allow them to impose restrictions on individual cases. transgender advocates say that administration could be doing more to speed up antidiscrimination roles. they write political sensitivity in apparel issues highlighted when trans activist posted a video of herself and two others topless at last week's white house pride event previewed conservatives infuse

president biden of the grading the presidency for the white house announced the -- degrading the presidency for the white house and announcing prohibiting them from going to the white house. caller: what you just read about that woman who took a picture of the trans and posted it, it was all staged. they have people out of they are doing ridiculous things and they want to blame it on the biden administration. i do not approve of storytelling by people dressed up like woman for little children even though i am a democrat and i believe in equal rights for for gay people. as long as they carry themselves in respectable way, who knows and who cares. host: how would you answer that

question, would you describe yourself on social issues conservative, very conservative, moderate, liberal, very liberal? caller: you cannot put everybody in one box. you cannot say i'm in this box or that box. your views have to be more wider than that. i want to say about this conservatism poll that rates of these people high, you have to think about all the people who went to the capital on january 6 from all over the country. they were drawn into this trump, trump, trump think. a lot of these people have been convicted of crimes and they are locked up.

what is trump saying? i will pardon them. i would do this and that. that is why a lot of them want him so they can get they people out of jail or get the synthesis turned around. that is why i think it is on the rise. there are so many republicans that got wrapped up in this trump syndrome. host: donald trump also comes into this article on the washington post looking at the biden administration message of the political tightrope they walk when it comes to transgender rights. they note donald trump during a recent speech in north carolina, he took note when his endorsement of an anti-transit measure prompted standing ovation. they quote to my stay in the

speech, it is amazing how strongly people feel about that, cutting back -- as i talk about cutting taxes and they go, like that? if i talk about transgender, everyone goes crazy. who would've thought you did not know what it was. donald trump. this is david in syracuse, new york. good morning. caller: i just wonder. two calls ago, why would you let someone come on and spew such hatred for three minutes? trans rights are human rights. it blows me away. it blows me away you would let someone come on the air and totally spew nonsense. one thing i want to say, do you remember in the 1980's, when i was growing up, their hatred

towards the gay population? now we look back at that and it is embarrassing. we can make progress. trans people are just people. they just want to be left alone to have their life. why is there always someone we got to hate? that is the one thing makes me really doubt my conservatism is that it seems like there's always -- this is who you have to hate now. this is who you have to hate next. this is who you have to hate after that. host: what would you say you are conservative on? caller: i used to think -- i'm a good christian. i used to think my conservatism gave me the moral high ground. but what i am realizing is that it is all just about hatred. all of us have a day relative, a

gay friend -- a gate relative, a gay friend. soon you all have a trans relative in a trans friend. 10 years from now we will look back and these horrible people spewing this garbage, it is not going to age well. it is going to look awful. they are talking about five-year-olds getting genital mutilated. that is not happened. that is not i thing. do you understand that? host: we had two desk coming up to talk about the issues you bring up. guest: talking about lgbtq rights and some of the efforts going on in the states pushing back on some of these issues.

when it comes to transgender's rights and as you're putting it, it will eventually be how america feels about gay rights in decades to come. sherry's of us that writing in today's washington times who -- sylvester writing in today's washington times, just look at one issue from a supporter trans rights which affects those suffering from gender confusion. she says it is following that support. according to gallup the number of americans who -- have increased to 70% almost the same as texans who oppose it. addictions by the love that trans rights will gradually evolve into broader acceptance as gay rights have seem to be off base is with sherry sylvester rights. bernie in pennsylvania, independent. caller: