Regional weather patterns are viewed through partisan lenses, poll finds

People from North Carolina to Texas’ Gulf Coast agree that their areas have been hard hit by extreme storms and hurricanes in recent years. But they disagree with one another on whether climate change is a major factor — and political allegiances make up the dividing line. …

Democrats are likely to cite global warming and climate change as the force behind some of the new weather patterns. Republicans are likely to discount climate change as the culprit.

These are among the findings of a wide-ranging poll conducted by The Washington Post and the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF). CONT.