TRADITIONAL CREPES ARE BACK ON THE MENU...

My family in New Zealand can make an AMAZING crepe dish.  It's very traditional and homemade with sugar and lemon.  These days you've got everyone thinking they are the next Top Chef, who shy away from traditional variations of foods in order to be more modern.  I can't believe the crappy Betty Crocker pancakes that American restaurants try to pawn off as a crepe.  I'd fly to New Zealand just for a crepe, but anyways...The Gallup website has an article posted called, "Renewed Desire for U.S. Gov't to Promote Traditional Values"which shocked me with the results.  Let's take a look at the first Gallup poll given:

  Source:  http://www.gallup.com/poll/123326/Renewed-Desire-Gov-Promote-Traditional-Values.aspx

Gallup says that prior to 1993, the public was more in favor of NOT favoring any values, but since 1993 to 2004.  As you can see in the graph above, the difference in people for want to PROMOTE TRADITIONAL VALUES compared to the people who are NOT IN FAVOR OF VALUES is relatively a big gap.  At most, in 1999, there was a 19% difference in opinion.  It should be noted that although after 2005 the difference in opinion had become more level and even with each other (look right before 2009--Americans were torn), the opinion that is consistently more favored is having the government return to promoting traditional values.  I think it's important to show that:

The poll does not define what the term "traditional values" means; thus, respondents answer in light of their understanding of the term. The results by party and ideology discussed here suggest that respondents understand traditional values to be those generally favored by the Republican Party. 

Source:  http://www.gallup.com/poll/123326/Renewed-Desire-Gov-Promote-Traditional-Values.aspx

 What does traditional mean to you?  For me, I think a huge portion of traditional values stems from the family and it's structure.  In my opinion, when things are going good with your family, we credit ourselves for practicing and upholding the family ideal.  We forget all the conflicts and times where the family was anything but the normal family.  However, when things are going badly within the family, that is when we start on a studious search for the dysfunctional elements in our life and blame our problems on them, not ourselves.  What do you think?

Another interesting point that Gallup brings up that some may overlook is the response to the poll in 2001 which was taken in October (just after the September 11 attacks).  The highest peak came at that time in favoring the government at 59% to promote traditional values.  That is quite a large number--almost 60% wanted traditional values promoted.  Gallup quickly points out that this was a time when the American people had a "heightened trust" with our government.  Some could say "Pshhh" to it now, especially those who opposed the Patriot Act, and other actions of our government that liberals believe were distrustful.  BUT, at the time of the attack, our country looked to our government to figure out all the how and why questions.  We looked to our government to protect our soil from that ever happening again.  I remember when people were being interviewed and asked to give their opinion about the Patriot Act and the government being able to tap into their phone lines to find terrorists.  Many believed that it was okay, because they were trying to find Whodunit.  Now people think it was a bad game of Clue.  

The recent numbers still indicate an 11% difference in opinion and a favor in promoting traditional values within our government.  So, next time you order crepes...=)