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How Your Neighbors Shape Your Politics | Colloquy Podcast

We hate each other more than we used to, at least where politics is concerned. Measures of effective polarization, the animosity that Democrats have for Republicans and vice versa, have increased dramatically since the 1990s according. Boston University Professor Jacob Brown, PhD ’22, says that polarization is shaped by where we live. The places where we grow up shape our views and social pressure influences our affiliations. Moreover, when we change neighborhoods or our neighborhoods change around us, our party ID can change too. That fact—that our affiliations are not necessarily set in stone but can shift as the people and places around us do—may offer some hope for the future of civic life in the United States . . . if we know what to do with it.