Socially it has <i>in certain places</i>.<p>Don&#x27;t assume the battle is won because you&#x27;ve captured a couple of cities and papers. The fact remains that the majority, at least in America, seem to be somewhat socially conservative.<p>EDIT: It&#x27;d be nice if we were more liberal. The biggest obstacle to that is the haughtiness and premature victory behavior that is endemic to the progressives right now.<p>Houston lost an important proposition for equality recently <i>because</i> all the progressives assumed the battle was won...and then they lost when the biblethumpers got their congregations to the polls.