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<em>The Atlantic </em>Daily: Americans Who've Met No One of Another Race or Religion

A significant minority of Americans dislike interacting with people with different political beliefs. Plus climate change enters its blood-sucking phase, and more
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In the American mythos, the United States is a hodgepodge of groups that blend together in a swirl of harmonious pluralism.Yet a new study conducted by and the Public Religion Research Institute pokes holes in that self-image. Democrats and Republicans, for example, have wildly different views on the values of multiculturalism and religious diversity, and a large percentage in both parties would The divisions are also racial—blacks and Latinos

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