It’s the holiday season, the time to gather with family and old friends, even people with whom you don’t see eye-to-eye politically. This year that may have special meaning.
Geographic self-segregation — the difference between where Democrats and Republicans tend to live — has come to define American politics. But when combined with the pandemic, those geographic divides have real-world public health impacts. …
As of late October, the Kaiser Family Foundation reported that 27 percent of American adults had not received a single vaccine dose. But the partisan divide in that 27 percent was remarkable — 17 percent of them were Democrats, 17 percent of them were independents and a whopping 60 percent were Republicans. CONTINUED
Dante Chinni, NBC News
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