Analysis shows which counties are most politically polarized - Entrepreneur Generations

Map by The Atlantic. Click here to view the interactive version.

America has become increasingly politically polarized in recent years, some places much more so than others. The Atlantic wanted to find out which U.S. counties were most polarized, and did so with the help of polling and analytics firm PredictWise. The result is a county-level map ranking counties based on partisan prejudice.

Some of the results were surprising. "We might expect some groups to be particularly angry at their political opponents right now. Immigrants have been explicitly targeted by the current administration, for example; they might have the most cause for partisan bias right now. But that is not what we found, Amanda Ripley, Rekha Tenjarla, and Angela He report. "In general, the most politically intolerant Americans, according to the analysis, tend to be whiter, more highly educated, older, more urban, and more partisan themselves."

That tracks with previous research by University of Pennsylvania political science professor Diana Mutz; she found that highly educated white people don't frequently talk to people who disagree with them politically, so it's easier for them to mischaracterize ideological opponents. "By contrast, many nonwhite Americans routinely encounter political disagreement. They have more diverse social networks, politically speaking, and therefore tend to have more complicated views of the other side, whatever side that may be," The Atlantic reports.

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