Luke Thomas

And you see it as a consequence of now watching his show.

My house was a little bit different because my dad worked for the federal government.

So, we had, we lived in D.C., obviously, so...

You know, but it didn't consume everything.

And it wasn't a forward part of identity.

Now it's like your entire identity.

Dude, I don't know if you know this.

Political scientists have, I mean, there's many ways and they call it layered identity.

So like it didn't used to be so layered where so many things lined up along one partisan valence and then so many things.

Let me give you an example of what I'm talking about.

They can tell what your voting pattern might be based on the proximity to which you live close to a Whole Foods.

Really?

Yes, because what they have figured out is these are often happening in dense urban centers.

The people more likely to shop there and live in these places tend to vote along X or Y patterns.

Typically, it's going to be a democratic pattern.

Really?

Yes.

This is, again, I'm not going to come on the show and not say anything I can't back up.

Ezra Klein, in his book, Why We're Polarized, discussed this particular thing in the opening chapter, so this can all be verified.

But there are the same kind of signifiers on the right.