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Americans Are Dangerously Divided (And Not Just Over Trump)<!-- wp:html --><p>Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty</p> <p>Is <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/americans-are-too-pampered-and-neurotic-to-fight-a-civil-war">America</a> coming apart at the seams? A new <a href="https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/22140614/generation-lab-nbc-poll.pdf">Generation Lab poll</a> of rising college sophomores conducted for NBC News confirms that <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-kids-are-not-alright-and-the-center-is-no-longer-holding">young Americans</a> are <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/pew-study-americans-are-self-segregating-amid-proliferating-partisan-media">segregating themselves along partisan lines</a>.</p> <p>And as <a href="https://www.axios.com/2022/08/19/college-students-dorm-political-views-poll">Axios notes</a>, 46 percent of respondents “said they would probably/definitely<em> </em>not room with someone who supported the opposing presidential candidate in 2020 (62 percent of Dems, 28 percent of GOP).”</p> <p>Meanwhile, 53 percent said they probably or definitely wouldn’t <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-new-dating-requirement-consuming-all-of-your-partners-content">date someone</a> who supported the other team—and 63 percent said they wouldn’t marry someone who supported the other party in 2020.</p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/americans-are-dangerously-divided-and-not-just-over-trump?source=articles&via=rss">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->

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Is America coming apart at the seams? A new Generation Lab poll of rising college sophomores conducted for NBC News confirms that young Americans are segregating themselves along partisan lines.

And as Axios notes, 46 percent of respondents “said they would probably/definitely not room with someone who supported the opposing presidential candidate in 2020 (62 percent of Dems, 28 percent of GOP).”

Meanwhile, 53 percent said they probably or definitely wouldn’t date someone who supported the other team—and 63 percent said they wouldn’t marry someone who supported the other party in 2020.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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