America’s Fault Lines and Common Ground

The American Communities Project worked with Ipsos to conduct our first-ever public opinion survey, supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. This survey of more than 5,000 Americans spread through the American Community Project's 15 county types is the first of three the ACP is conducting on American fragmentation, and it shows a deeply complicated landscape on many issues — from gun ownership to race. But it also shows some areas of commonality and potential for common ground.

Read our report “New Survey Breaks Down America’s Complicated Landscape.”

Read about my process of distilling and writing in “Data as the Backup Dancer.”