In the common imagination, the deep cultural divide in the United States pits Team Woke (young, female, POC) against Team Resentful (old, male, white). This is almost entirely wrong. (Thread.)https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/large-majorities-dislike-political-correctness/572581/ …
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As a great new study by More in Common shows, Americans actually divide into seven tribes: * Progressive activists * Traditional liberals * Passive liberals * Politically disengaged * Moderates * Traditional conservatives * Devoted conservativeshttps://www.moreincommon.com/hidden-tribes
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Traditional and devoted conservatives are far outside the American mainstream. The views of progressive activists are even further away from the views of average Americans. The rest has a lot in common. They form an “exhausted majority.”
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One of the most surprising areas on which Americans agree much more than might seem obvious on Twitter, Facebook, and cable news? Political correctness. 80% of Americans—four in five!—now believe that “political correctness is a problem in our country.”
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Age barely predicts how Americans feel about political correctness. Even among 24 - 29 year olds, the group most receptive to political correctness, 74% think it’s a problem. And among the youngest, those below 24, the number goes back up to 79%!pic.twitter.com/sHyyrM7UCe
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Race does an even worse job than age at predicting how Americans feel about political correctness: * Whites are more open to political correctness than average Americans * The groups most likely to say PC is a problem are Asians (82%), Hispanics (87%) and Native-Americans (88%)pic.twitter.com/pYcmzScCDp
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The only small part of the standard race story that is confirmed is that African-Americans are least likely to dislike political correctness. But three quarters of them—only 4% less than whites and 5% less than the American average—still say that PC is a problem.
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So if age and race don’t predict support for political correctness, what does? Wealth and education. * 83% of Americans making less than $50,000 dislike PC; 70% making over $100,000 do. * 87% of Americans who never attended college dislike PC; 66% with a grad degree do.pic.twitter.com/GgRhrvLzp2
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Hardly surprising, since PC means trying to speak in a way that doesn't require a graduate degree gets you slapped.
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