The polarization of American politics, in one map

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last updated 7 October 2015

If it feels like American politics have become more polarized in recent years, that's because they have. A new study from researchers at Princeton, Georgetown, and the University of Oregon finds that red states have been getting redder and blue states have been getting bluer over the past two decades:

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.

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