Current Events > There's a lot of interesting data in this election analysis

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https://www.voterstudygroup.org/reports/2016-elections/political-divisions-in-2016-and-beyond
Just gonna take some snippets here

The "socially liberal, but economically conservative" folks you hear so much about? They don't really exist:

To do this, I created two new indexes:

An economic liberalism-conservatism index (which combines views on the social safety net, trade, inequality, and active government)
A social/identity liberalism-conservatism politics index (which combines the moral issues index plus views toward African-Americans, immigrants, and Muslims).
This allows us to plot all respondents on a single scatterplot, shown here.

https://www.voterstudygroup.org/assets/i/uploads/reports/Graphs-Charts/1101/figure2_drutman_e4aabc39aab12644609701bbacdff252.png

There's significant overlap in voters' views on economic questions, while the two groups are more polarized on issues of identity
https://www.voterstudygroup.org/assets/i/uploads/reports/Graphs-Charts/1095/figure4-5_drutman_e4aabc39aab12644609701bbacdff252.png

Make of these what you will
https://www.voterstudygroup.org/assets/i/uploads/reports/Graphs-Charts/1097/figure8_drutman_e4aabc39aab12644609701bbacdff252.png
https://www.voterstudygroup.org/assets/i/uploads/reports/Graphs-Charts/1089/figure9_drutman_e4aabc39aab12644609701bbacdff252.png
https://www.voterstudygroup.org/assets/i/uploads/reports/Graphs-Charts/1098/figure10_drutman_e4aabc39aab12644609701bbacdff252.png

In both parties, this donor class is both more conservative on economic issues and more liberal on social issues, as compared to the rest of the party. However, there is a slight but notable asymmetry between the two parties on identity issues. Among Democrats, the donor class is notably to the left of the working class on these issues. Among Republicans, the donor class is also to the left of the working class on identity issues, but only slightly. This suggests that Democrats could feel more pressure to move to the left on identity issues, while Republicans will stay where they are, further polarizing the parties on identity issues.
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What Divides The Parties Now?
The parties are divided on both social/identity and economic issues, but more so on identity issues. The gaps between the Clinton and Trump voters on questions of racial resentment, immigration, attitudes toward Muslims, and moral issues are consistently wide. There is very little overlap between the two camps on these issues.

By contrast, although the parties are divided on economic issues, there is more overlap. Particularly in the Republican Party, there are a wide range of views on economic issues, now that the party has expanded to include more and more populists who were formerly Democrats.
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What Are The Divisions Within The Parties?
Both parties have internal divisions, though the divisions within the Republican Party are probably greater, since Republicans are about equally divided between economically liberal populists and more free-market-oriented conservatives. Republican primaries revealed a Kasich faction that is consistently more moderate across issues, a Trump faction that is more liberal on economic issues but more conservative on identity issues, and a Cruz faction that is more free market on economic issues and particularly conservative on moral issues.

Democrats are less divided on the substantive issues, but somewhat more divided in disposition, with Sanders supporters evincing more anti-establishment disaffection, and Clinton supporters having more faith and enthusiasm toward the political system overall.

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Obviously. It's what conservatives call themselves so they don't have to feel bad about it.
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