Americans Strongly Dislike PC Culture

Pretty obvious to people who don't live on social media/cable news, but still interesting to see the data:

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On social media, the country seems to divide into two neat camps: Call them the woke and the resentful. Team Resentment is manned—pun very much intended—by people who are predominantly old and almost exclusively white. Team Woke is young, likely to be female, and predominantly black, brown, or Asian (though white “allies” do their dutiful part). These teams are roughly equal in number, and they disagree most vehemently, as well as most routinely, about the catchall known as political correctness.

Reality is nothing like this. As scholars Stephen Hawkins, Daniel Yudkin, Miriam Juan-Torres, and Tim Dixon argue in a report published Wednesday, “Hidden Tribes: A Study of America’s Polarized Landscape,” most Americans don’t fit into either of these camps. They also share more common ground than the daily fights on social media might suggest—including a general aversion to PC culture.

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As a great new study by More in Common shows, Americans actually divide into seven tribes:

Progressive activists
Traditional liberals
Passive liberals
Politically disengaged
Moderates
Traditional conservatives
Devoted conservatives

Traditional and devoted conservatives are far outside the American mainstream. The views of progressive activists are even further away from the views of average Americans. The rest has a lot in common. They form an “exhausted majority.”

80% of Americans now believe that “political correctness is a problem in our country.”

Age barely predicts how Americans feel about political correctness: Even among 24 - 29 year olds, the group most receptive to political correctness, 74% think it’s a problem. And among the youngest, those below 24, the number goes back up to 79%!

Race does an even worse job than age at predicting how Americans feel about political correctness: Whites are more open to political correctness than average Americans
The groups most likely to say PC is a problem are Asians (82%), Hispanics (87%) and Native-Americans (88%)

The only small part of the standard race story that is confirmed is that African-Americans are least likely to dislike political correctness. But three quarters of them only 4% less than whites and 5% less than the American average—still say that PC is a problem.

So if age and race don’t predict support for political correctness, what does? Wealth and education. 83% of Americans making less than $50,000 dislike PC; 70% making over $100,000 do. 87% of Americans who never attended college dislike PC; 66% with a grad degree do.



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