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Alden Whitfeld
@AldenWhitfeld
Engaging in mild amounts of tomfoolery

Jun 17, 5 tweets

So anyways, here’s a study showing how most of the “political polarization” in the U.S. is due to Democrats liberalizing much faster than Republicans over time, including decades before Trump was ever in office.

Here are the results for each individual issue over time:

Here are the same issues by race over time:

Change in frequency of terms denoting political extremism by political leaning of the news outlet in the United States and United Kingdom:

Terms denoting prejudice:

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