Time magazine put together a quiz to try to tease out how tribalism divides democracies.

Generally in the United States, you can divide people who consider race, religion, political affiliation, and education as the groups most likely people who will sort themselves by.

Each of twenty questions throw up two people with four of the traits above, asking which you would find more in common with (for example person A is college educated, Republican, atheist, Black; versus high school, Democratic, Jewish, white).

In the real world, these qualities overlap.

In the original poll, political affiliation was the single greatest indicator of connectedness than any other factor, or political affiliation is the greatest single indicator of division in the USA.

You can take the quiz to see how you score in the four categories.

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This phenomenon was most pronounced among Democrats, who were 41% more likely to choose a fellow Democrat over a non-Democrat. For Republicans, religion and race were stronger predictors of perceived commonality: Republicans were 57% more likely to choose Christians over non-Christians and 43% more likely to choose Whites over non-Whites. Political alignment was the third most potent degree of connection for Republicans, who were 21% more likely to choose a Republican over a Democrat.

I fall outside the expected results shown above.

“Based on your responses, here’s what makes up your sense of commonality with another person:”

Religion: 49%
Political Party: 37%
Education: 8%
Race: 6%

Politics, Race, Religion: What Really Divides Americans? Take Our Exclusive Quiz (May 20, 2021, interactive quiz)