US ‘most polarized’ in decades
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THE political middle ground is shrinking and the partisan gulf in Washington — and the rest of America — is getting wider, according to extensive findings unveiled yesterday by Pew Research Center.
Growing ideological uniformity on both sides is leading an increasing number of Americans to see followers of the other party as a “threat to the nation’s well-being,” the report said.
Dislike of people on the opposite side of the political spectrum has grown, Pew said, with about one third of far-right and far-left Americans saying they would be unhappy if a family member married someone of a different ideological persuasion.
The study tracks “a rising tide of mutual antipathy.” While 16 percent of consistent Democrats saw Republicans as “very unfavorable” in 1994, that figure has risen to 38 percent today, while consistent Republicans’ similar views of Democrats have soared, from 17 percent in 1994 to 43 percent today.
“The overall share of Americans who express consistently conservative or consistently liberal opinions has doubled over the past two decades, from 10 percent to 21 percent,” Pew said in its 121-page report.
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