{"id":137128,"date":"2018-09-11T15:29:24","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T21:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/11\/politics-has-become-the-new-tribalism.html"},"modified":"2018-09-12T07:05:53","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T13:05:53","slug":"politics-has-become-the-new-tribalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/11\/politics-has-become-the-new-tribalism.html","title":{"rendered":"Politics has become the new tribalism"},"content":{"rendered":"

An interesting look at how politics<\/i> has become an increasingly powerful source of identity,<\/i> not just an outcome of it.<\/p>\n

People sometimes decry identity politics — “I’m an X, so I vote for That Party” or “I’m a Z, so I only vote for other Zs or Z supporters,” with religion, race, gender, class, etc., taking the part of the variables.<\/p>\n

But there’s evidence that political party or political identity along one or another spectrum is beginning to trump the others. Looking at long-term surveys (where the subject was given the same questions across multiple years), researchers are seeing those other identities changing based on political identification. E.g.,<\/p>\n

Liberal Democrats were much more likely than conservative Republicans to start identifying as Latino or saying that their ancestry was African, Asian or Hispanic.<\/p>\n

Conservative Republicans were more likely than liberal Democrats to stop describing themselves as lesbian, gay or bisexual; liberal-leaning Democrats were more likely to start identifying as lesbian, gay or bisexual.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Again, it’s not that these people were “actually” changing — their genetics weren’t switching around — but that how they perceived or identified themselves was realigning based on their (unchanged in labels) politics, or how those other labels were seen as part and parcel of those political ideologies, rather than separate factors.<\/p>\n

That change in the last decade or so may also go along with other observations as to the rise of Big Ideas and the decline of compromise within politics<\/a>; when political ideology becomes not just an outcome<\/em> of your identity, but your identity itself<\/em>, emotionality and an unforgiveness for backing down become more natural reactions.<\/p>\n


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\nAmericans Are Shifting The Rest Of Their Identity To Match Their Politics<\/a><\/span>
\nWelcome to Secret Identity, our regular column on identity and its role in politics and policy. We generally think of a person\u2019s race or religion as being fixed\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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People sometimes decry identity politics — “I’m an X, so I vote for That Party” or “I’m a Z, so I only vote for other Zs or Z supporters,” with religion, race, gender, class, etc., … Continue reading “Politics has become the new tribalism”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,25,358,740,6,1071,8],"tags":[1723,1373],"class_list":["post-137128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-gay-stuff","category-poor-citizenship","category-race-racism","category-science","category-trump","category-zt-pc","tag-compromise","tag-tolerance"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/flag-thumprint-identity-politics.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":132149,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/03\/its-only-identity-politics-when-its-not-about-white-guys.html","url_meta":{"origin":137128,"position":0},"title":"It's only "identity politics" when it's not about white guys","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 3-Dec-16 2:34pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm a straight white guy, so clearly there's something wrong with me when I can say, \"Hey, there are other groups of people out there, groups that don't include me, that I should be cognizant of, that I should try to be sure get a slice of the pie as\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":134875,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/01\/yes-just-colorado-needs-political-future.html","url_meta":{"origin":137128,"position":1},"title":"Yes, this is just what Colorado needs in its political future","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 1-Oct-17 11:03pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A Steve Bannon-backed Tom Tancredo GOP candidacy for governor. 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