How attitudes travel together, decade by decade. Weighted Pearson correlations among six ANES issue scales, all oriented so that higher = more conservative, pooled within decade. The right-hand column shows each issue’s correlation with 7-point party identification. Gray cells: item not asked, or pairwise N below 200 (suppressed). Hover or tab to any cell for the pair, r, and N.The null result, and what came after. Each dot is an ANES study year. The issue–issue line begins in 1980, when the full six-scale battery starts (the 1970s battery covered economics only; the thin line tracks that comparable four-scale economic subset across the full span). No studies in 2006, 2010, or 2014; the 2002 study carried no issue battery. Hover for exact values and the number of measurable pairs.From a tangle around zero to a package deal. Abortion’s weighted correlation with party identification and with each of five other issue scales, by study year, 1980–2024. All scales oriented conservative-high; gaps where an item was not fielded. Hover for the full column of values in any year.The wedge is the sorting. Mean issue–issue correlation by decade: all respondents vs computed within Democrats (7-point ID 1–3, leaners included) and within Republicans (5–7). The shaded region between the national line and the camp average is between-party separation, not within-person belief organization — an upper bound, since within-party correlations are attenuated by range restriction. Pure independents excluded from the camp lines. Hover any decade for values.