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Here's a very interesting article (but I wouldn't call it unexpected, as far as the punch line goes).
A bit long, but worth the read. And worth keeping within reach when the question of tolerance comes up.
Intolerance goes both ways, but no matter how hard The Atlantic tries to soften the blow it is pretty clear that it is the Left who is far more intolerant and elitist than the Right. Who'da thunk it?
Link: The Geography of Partisan Prejudice
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A bit long, but worth the read. And worth keeping within reach when the question of tolerance comes up.
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. This finding aligns in some ways with previous research by the University of Pennsylvania professor Diana Mutz, who has found that white, highly educated people are relatively isolated from political diversity. They don’t routinely talk with people who disagree with them; this isolation makes it easier for them to caricature their ideological opponents. (In fact, people who went to graduate school have the least amount of political disagreement in their lives, as Mutz describes in her book Hearing the Other Side.)
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In some parts of the country, including swaths of North Carolina and upstate New York, people still seem to give their fellow Americans the benefit of the doubt, even when they disagree. In other places, including much of Massachusetts and Florida, people appear to have far less tolerance for political difference. They may be quicker to assume the worst about their political counterparts, on average.
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Nationwide, if we disregard the smallest counties (which may be hard to pin down statistically, since they have fewer than 100,000 people), the most politically intolerant county in America appears to be Suffolk County, Massachusetts, which includes the city of Boston.
Intolerance goes both ways, but no matter how hard The Atlantic tries to soften the blow it is pretty clear that it is the Left who is far more intolerant and elitist than the Right. Who'da thunk it?
Link: The Geography of Partisan Prejudice
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