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I am back from vacation, but in my previous post I proposed that "a pure two-party system promotes ideological politics" and said ...

  My last post finished by asking why ideological politics has grown in the United States, in contrast to almost all other countries.  A dis...

I will be on vacation when this post appears, so it seems appropriate to take a break from facts and engage in speculation. "Tribalis...

My last post discussed a scale that is usually referred to as "racial resentment."  The questions (all with responses going from s...

The paper I discussed in my last post showed changes in an index of "racial resentment" from the American National Election Studie...

In the last few days, I have seen several stories saying that " a new study ... found that opposition to welfare ... has grown among wh...

A recent piece by Thomas Edsall in the New York Times discusses research by Steven Miller and Nicholas Davis .  They find that "outgrou...