Listening to the Nation: Online Survey Results
The American Communities Project is conducting an ongoing online survey about people’s associations to 25 important terms in American life today — the same ones we interviewed people about in the field. The bigger the words below, the more they have appeared in people’s responses to the terms. We occasionally clarify these word clouds with people’s full responses on an anonymous basis. We will keep the survey open and update this page periodically. (Participants did not always provide the county in which they live so these responses are not by county type.)
America
American Dream
Community
Conservative
Culture
Democracy
Diversity
Family
First Amendment
Freedom
Gender Identity
Government
Inequality
Justice
Liberal
Minority
From a respondent: “I heard it put best recently in an Atlantic piece on diversity trainings: ‘The analogy I used was a fish versus a scuba diver. Both could survive in the ocean, but the fish did so effortlessly as the environment was built around their needs and capabilities. The scuba diver needed an oxygen tank, wet suit, fins, and had to expend a fair amount of energy to just survive in the ocean, much less thrive. The scuba diver was constantly aware of his difference and how much conscious effort it took to navigate underwater, and it was exhausting. The fish didn’t even know what water was.'”
News Media
Personal responsibility
Public health
Race
Religion
Second Amendment
Social Media
Well-being
Work
