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Income, education predict pseudo-independence

The largest partisan bloc in America has some predictable demographic characteristics.

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Carl Beijer
Feb 26, 2025
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A few years ago I wrote about one of the most important but least studied political groups in the United States: the pseudo-independent. In brief: pseudo-independents are people who identify as independent, but who think and behave exactly like partisans. An overwhelming majority of so-called independents in the United States are actually pseudo-indepen…

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