The Atlantic commissioned a study into intolerance and the winner appears to be older white liberals. They didn’t use those words. They used these: “tend to be whiter, more highly educated, older, more urban, and more partisan themselves.”
Do they think that fooled anyone? I’m not really surprised since that generation of Democrats were still fighting the Civil War and the loss of their slaves. They also fought against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, led by Sen Al Gore Sr.
From the article:
We see this dynamic in the heat map. In some parts of the country, including swaths of North Carolina and upstate New York, people still seem to give their fellow Americans the benefit of the doubt, even when they disagree. In other places, including much of Massachusetts and Florida, people appear to have far less tolerance for political difference. They may be quicker to assume the worst about their political counterparts, on average.
Nationwide, if we disregard the smallest counties (which may be hard to pin down statistically, since they have fewer than 100,000 people), the most politically intolerant county in America appears to be Suffolk County, Massachusetts, which includes the city of Boston.
In this part of the country, nine out of every 10 couples appear to share the same partisan leaning, according to the voter-file data. Eight out of every 10 neighborhoods are politically homogeneous.
This means that people in Boston may have fewer “cross-cutting relationships,” as researchers put it. It is a very urban county with a relatively high education level. All these things tend to correlate with partisan prejudice.