Gemini 3.5 FlashSep 1917 citations
Is political polarization worse than it's been in the past?
To answer whether political polarization is worse than in the past, political scientists and historians generally split the answer into two parts: Yes, it is worse than at any point in modern polling history (the last 50 to 70 years), but no, it has not yet reached the absolute physical extreme of the American Civil War.
However, today’s polarization has unique, scientifically measured character