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Political science’s Joseph White explains why polarization of the election results aren’t completely unexpected

Divided states of America

The Straits Times: Joseph White, the Luxenberg Family Professor of Public Policy, explained how the polarization of the election results aren’t completely unexpected. “We knew that the country was really divided, at least in a lot of ways, before. The election didn’t really tell us anything we didn’t know about that—just that the votes, for various reasons, ended up splitting slightly differently than they did in the last election,” he said.