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> As far as I'm concerned, America is divided because of two reasons: The American people have always been divided. Until semi-recently (~1960s) the political
by throw0101c 3y ago
> As far as I'm concerned, America is divided because of two reasons:
The American people have always been divided. Until semi-recently (~1960s) the political parties didn't sort themselves neatly on these divisions but over the last 30-40 years they have.
To be tribal/clannish/insider-outsider also seems to be an innate human trait.
Ezra Klein wrote a good book on both the (US) political history and various psychology studies on it:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_We%27re_Polarized https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_We%27re_Polarized