No, Wait, Short Conversations Really Can Reduce Prejudice [TheAtlantic.com]
In early 2015, a team of 56 volunteers knocked on the doors of conservative voters in Miami, Florida to talk about transgender rights. Local officials had recently passed a law that protected transgender people from discrimination, but LGBT organizations were concerned about backlash, repeals, and counter-legislation (of the kind recently seen in North Carolina ). So volunteers from the Los Angeles LGBT Center and SAVE , a Florida LGBT organization asked voters what they thought about the...