{"id":133001,"date":"2017-03-09T09:16:54","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T16:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/09\/presidential-polarization.html"},"modified":"2017-03-09T09:16:54","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T16:16:54","slug":"presidential-polarization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/09\/presidential-polarization.html","title":{"rendered":"Presidential Polarization"},"content":{"rendered":"

Looking by county, Americans are becoming geographically much more polarized in party politics for President.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, that's not a good thing. Being around a significant number of other people who hold different political views than you do not only encourages tolerance (or at least politeness), but it does provide exposure to alternate ideas, perspectives, arguments. It can actually lead to changing of minds.<\/p>\n

It's also not a good thing because political parties are awful proxies for ideology. Within both parties are a myriad of political viewpoints, but any given individual should<\/i> able to find themselves allied with individuals on the "other side" on certain issues. By having party voting trump that sort of mixture, people end constrained by a platform box in all things.<\/p>\n

Finally, to the extent that presidential voting and other voting are related, this sort of increased polarization correlates with increased division with in legislatures and the like, with less centrist candidates, with a disdain for compromise, and with an us-vs-them mentality that not only fractures good governance, but society itself, in ways that don't bode well for the nation, the states, or any of us.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Looking by county, Americans are becoming geographically much more polarized in party politics for President. Ultimately, that's not a good thing. 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