Gallup data is preferred over ANES for this realignment analysis.

Evidence

Given that the ANES cautions against longitudinal analysis with variables they do not include in the cumulative file, we show these results mostly for the sake of completeness and emphasize that we prefer the Gallup given the serious issues of question consistency highlighted above. β€” Ilyana Kuziemko and Ebonya Washington, Why Did the Democrats Lose the South?…, 1334

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Higher-frequency newspaper data pinpoints the 1963 perception shift the ANES cannot date β€” Ilyana Kuziemko and Ebonya Washington, Why Did the Democrats Lose the South?…, 356