19 January 2021
"the Twitterverse is anything but representative of the nation"
"A study of the Democratic electorate, by the nonpartisan Hidden Tribes project, (found)... only 11 percent of online Democrats are African American compared to 24 percent of Democrats in the real world, and 53 percent of Democrats on social media said they have become more liberal over their lifetimes; only 30 percent of offline Democrats said the same."
11 January 2021
16 December 2020
"New research from More in Common... indicates that a mere 34% of progressive activists are “proud” of being American. Some 30% of Americans generally do not feel pride in America, including 30% of African Americans."
"Patriotic empathy is what those of us for whom conspicuous love of country comes easily need to hold for those whose relationship to America feels more complicated".
27 October 2020
UnHerd
Drop what you’re doing and read this: it’s one of the important pieces of opinion research this year. Entitled Britain’s Choice, and published by More in Common, it doesn’t analyse Britain by political affiliation, but according to deeper values. So instead of Left versus Right or Remain versus Leave, we are grouped into seven tribes including “Progressive Activists”, ...
26 October 2020
The Times Red Box
Remember that spring surge in community spirit? How we came together in adversity, helped each other out, celebrated key workers, and more or less got behind the government’s strategy for dealing with the crisis?
Society is not as divided by Brexit and Covid as you might think