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I'd be honestly curious to see the same study enacted outside the US. I do wonder if it'd come up with very different results. I don't want this to sound like

by soneil 11y ago

I'd be honestly curious to see the same study enacted outside the US. I do wonder if it'd come up with very different results. I don't want this to sound like stereotype-bashing, but I do notice that politics in the US seems to be incredibly polarized. There seems to be very little in the way of "difference of opinion", and more .. O is the antichrist, H is a criminal, B is a communist, T is going to bring on the apocalypse/ww3/economic collapse armed with little more than ignorance and arrogance .. It's hardly surprising people find political conversation divisive, when they see someone who disagrees with them as not having a differing opinion on one or two key issues, but as supporting a regime that's going to destroy their way of life (.. which never ends up happening).

Unklejoe 11y ago
This is probably because the USA is relatively large and there are significant differences between states in terms of culture and industry. For example, the people of New York probably have very little in common with those of Tennessee. For example, it's easy for a liberal in Massachusetts to label a conservative in Arizona a "bigot" for wanting to close the border, but the liberal in Massachusetts has probably never experienced the issues of illegal immigration in the way that someone from Arizona has. This is why I think more power needs to be given to individual states rather than the federal government.