Last year the research group More in Common conducted thousands of interviews to identify the different clusters of American voters. They broke us down into seven categories such as Politically Disengaged or Moderates. (You can Google “Hidden Tribes–More in Common” and see a summary of the report.)
The far left (8%) and far right (6%) have very little in common. The left, which More in Common calls “Progressive Activists,” think immigration is good (99%). The right, which they call “Devoted Conservatives,” think immigration is bad (90%). 86 % of the Devoted Conservatives think it is more important for children to be well-behaved than creative. 13% of the Progressive activists agree with that.
It is important to remember that 86% of the population is in neither group. It is also important to remember that those of us on the Progressive Activist group (I’m pretty sure I’d fall in that category) have lots of work to do to convince those idiots at the other end of the continuum just how misguided they are.
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