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- A huge new Pew Research Center study of 10,000 American adults finds us more divided than ever, with personal and political polarization at a 20-year high. The number of people identifying themselves as either consistently liberal or consistently conservative has doubled in the last decade.
www.pbs.org/newshour/show/pew-study-finds-polarized-americans-increasingly-resistant-political-compromisePew study finds more polarized Americans increasingly ... - PBS
Jan 21, 2020 · They found that in the U.S., affective polarization has increased more dramatically since the late 1970s than in the eight other countries they examined — the U.K., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Switzerland, Norway and Sweden.
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Jul 2, 2024 · Why not ask “everyone else” whether America is really that divided? Pollsters do, all the time. But there’s a problem. Ordinary folks think Americans are much more partisan than they are.
Feb 19, 2024 · A new study of American voters by researchers at Rice University and Stanford University shows that while response rates to political surveys are on the decline, people are more polarized than ever.
Mar 10, 2022 · Democrats on average have become somewhat more liberal, while Republicans on average have become much more conservative. The geographic and demographic makeup of both congressional parties has changed dramatically.
- Drew Desilver
- The Republican Party Has Transformed Over The Last 10 years.
- That Transformation Has Produced Changes in Values and Policy Preferences.
- The Democratic Party Has Transformed Over The Last 10 Years, too.
- That's Produced Changes in Values and Policy Preferences, too.
- Democrats Have Become More Supportive of abortion.
- But Support For Gay Marriage Has Grown Across The Board
In 2012, the poll found 48% of self-described Republicans were whites without college degrees, and another 40% who were whites with college degrees. Ten years later, however, non-college whites made up 62% of all Republicans, while the share of whites with college degrees declined to 25%.
Take the issue of free trade. In 2015 — before Trump became president — a nearly equal share of Democrats (56%) and Republicans (48%) said free trade with foreign countries is good for America. Yet by 2019, the gap here between Democrats (73%) and Republicans (52%) had grown to 21 points. There’s also gun control. In 1995, 48% of Republicans agreed...
In 2012’s merged NBC News polling, 43% of Democrats described themselves as liberal, with 19% calling themselves “very liberal.” By 2022’s merged polling, 55% of Democrats said they were liberal, with 29% being “very liberal.”
In 2013’s polling, only 10% of Democrats said they didn’t follow a religion. Ten years later, that share grew to 38%. On policy, meanwhile, 45% of Democrats said the government should do more to solve problems, according to the Dec. 1995 NBC/WSJ poll, versus 17% of Republicans who agreed. Yet by April 2021, Republicans had pretty much stayed the sa...
In addition, the poll shows that the share of Democrats who say abortion should be legal always or most of the time has increased from 68% in 2008 to 89% now. By comparison, Republicans and independents have barely moved.
In 2003, just 22% of Republicans and 40% of Democrats said they approved of same-sex marriage. Now? It’s 82% for Democrats (+42 points) and 47% for Republicans (+25). Still, it’s notable that 4-in-5 Democrats approve of same-sex marriage, versus less than half of Republicans.
Aug 19, 2024 · For example, a 2022 study published in The Journal of Politics shows that Americans severely misestimate the extent of ideological extremism of the opposing party’s voters. The authors surveyed over 13,000 Americans selected to reflect the demographics of the US population.
3 days ago · They made the country more geographically polarized. ... public voter registration records of more than 3.5 million Americans who moved since the last presidential election, offer a new and ...
