Americans Overestimate Political Divides, Research Shows
Political polarization has increased in the U.S., but research suggests most Americans share more overlapping views than they realize.
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The United States has grown more politically polarized, but research suggests Americans perceive greater differences between one another than actually exist, according to NPR.
A majority of Americans occupy a broad middle ground, with political views that overlap. That overlap complicates the picture of a country divided into sharply opposing camps.
The findings do not mean polarization is absent. They suggest that growing political divisions coexist with more shared views than Americans tend to recognize.
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