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Don’t look for much emphasis on abortion in the 2016 campaign

By Michael Barone
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Don’t look for much emphasis on abortion in the 2016 campaign

Americans are divided politically along cultural, not economic, lines. Partisan preference is highly correlated with views on non-economic issues and only loosely related to economic status.

This is the norm rather than the exception in American political history. Party preference has run along regional, racial and ethnic lines more than the divisions along economic lines that became dominant in the New Deal era and began petering out in the late 1960s.

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