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Support for busing children to achieve school integration; the ANES uses a seven-point scale and the GSS a favor/oppose question, so the two are only roughly comparable.
AI-matched An AI model grouped these questions and mapped their answers onto shared categories, and a second AI review checked and corrected the grouping and mapping. No person has checked it: compare the question wordings and the answer mapping below before reading the lines against each other.
Latest: 62% answered “Oppose busing” in GSS, 1996.
Shares of people whose answer maps onto these categories (non-answers and answers outside the scale are left out), because surveys differ in whether they offer “don’t know.” Each column is one survey wave, evenly spaced rather than to scale in time; hover for exact shares.
Shares of people whose answer maps onto these categories (non-answers and answers outside the scale are left out), because surveys differ in whether they offer “don’t know.” Each point is one survey wave at the middle of its field period. Lines from different surveys are never spliced together.
Groups differ from everyone by 7 points on average across all answers, in GSS.
| Line | Question | Match | How answers map |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANES | Busing to achieve school integration There is much discussion about the best way to deal with racial problems. Some people think achieving racial integration of schools is so important that it justifies busing children to schools out of their own neighborhoods. Others think letting children go to their neighborhood schools is so important that they oppose busing. Where would you place yourself on this scale, or haven’t you thought much about this? (7-POINT SCALE SHOWN TO R) Caveat: 7-point trade-off scale vs neighborhood schools; collapsed to 3 groups; midpoint has no GSS counterpart | similar | Bus to achieve integration → Favor busing; 2 → Favor busing; 3 → Favor busing; 4 → Neither / middle; 5 → Oppose busing; 6 → Oppose busing; Keep children in neighborhood schools → Oppose busing |
| GSS | Favor or oppose racial busing of school children A. In general, do you favor or oppose the busing of (Negro/Black/African-American) and white school children from one school district to another? Caveat: Binary favor/oppose; no middle option; asks about busing between districts | equivalent | Favor → Favor busing; Oppose → Oppose busing |
Groups differ from everyone by 5 points on average across all answers, in GSS.
Subgroup charts are picked automatically. Of every breakdown in the data (party, ideology, age, sex, race, education, income, region, religion, and community type), these two put their groups furthest from everyone’s answers: the gap is averaged across all answer categories and waves, with each group weighted by its share of respondents. Party and ideology count as one choice, so the second chart shows a different kind of split. Groups with an effective sample under 50 in a wave are left out of that wave.