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The NPR Politics Podcast
The book examined how political identities have become more sorted and how crosscutting identities have eroded, linking partisan polarization to social divisions.
Our pick this time is Uncivil Agreement, How Politics Became Our Identity by Liliana Mason.
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Episode: What If We Don't Need To 'Fix' Polarization?
The book examined how political identities have become more sorted and how crosscutting identities have eroded, linking partisan polarization to social divisions.
Our pick this time is Uncivil Agreement, How Politics Became Our Identity by Liliana Mason.
I wanted to start really simply with you, but basically with how your book starts, with a story you tell about the Eagles and the Rattlers.
So one of the big points of your book is about this change in how we are sorted and how we have increasingly lost what you call crosscutting identities.
Liliana, your book came out well before the 2020 election.