Opinion Weekend
October 28-29, 2023
New Survey Breaks Down America’s Complicated Landscape Dante Chinni & Ari Pinkus, American Communities Project The media tends to explain the divides in United States in binary terms — red/blue, left/right, urban/rural. News stories discuss war between two conflicting “cultures” in the country. Sometimes included is a third option for “independents” or “centrists.” But look closer and the picture is far more complicated, marked by fault lines that can be hard to see. The American Communities Project has just started to explore what those differences look like with a three-year project funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and is releasing the first of three large public opinion surveys conducted with Ipsos.


