Racial polarization is going down, not up

It’s a big deal, but it always has been

I try not to pick too much on headlines because there is some inevitable loss of nuance in these things, and trying to get people to click on the articles is a part of life. But I was really struck by the headline of a recent Dan Balz article in The Washington Post: “What divides political parties? More than ever, it’s race and ethnicity.”

I was struck …