Is America in the middle of a political transformation?

6 voting booths, 2 voters, 1 basketball hoop.
Voters cast their ballots inside of Martin Luther King Community Center in St. Paul on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019.
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America’s fault lines were visible long before the pandemic started and recent protests against police brutality took place in cities and small towns across the country.

Lilliana Mason is a political scientist at the University of Maryland, where she researches the nation’s stark ideological divide.

Her book, “Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity,” digs into the ways in which identity fosters deep divisions and feelings of distrust between Democrats and Republicans, even in instances where they might have similar policy goals or ideas.

She’s been thinking about those fault lines a lot in this moment and how public opinion is shifting. She joined MPR News host Kerri Miller Thursday. 


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