@lordalveric What are the links?
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Yea I just double checked to make sure my memory was correct, it was... links represent voting pair agreement. when two people vote the same they get a link, the more they vote the same the thicker the link. This apparently is then organized with a graph drawing algorithm, likely force-directed by the looks of it.
Here is the original video it comes from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEczkhfLwqM
@freemo
Thanks for posting the video... The meme skipped decades but in the video it looks life the break was about 1991. This would have been the election of 1990, mid term election of Bush #1, and it got more polarized from there.
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The Democratic Party built on its majorities in both chambers of Congress. They picked up a net of one seat in the Senate."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_United_States_elections
My guess is that the division after 9/11 and with Obama and Trump is a symptom of existing problems rather than something new.
Yes the polarization was starting just slightly before 9/11. My guess is if 9/11 never happened the polarization would have been transient and went away long before now. But 9/11 accelerated it and cemented it as a permanent fixture.
@freemo @SecondJon @stevenroose
I fear that you may be right on this. Where this will lead in the next decade or two is scary, to say the least.
May be safer to be here rather than there. And all the more reason to renounce.