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Article text courtesy of nytimes.com: Todays Politics Politics Divide Parties, And friends And Families, Too

Close to half of the voters in the survey also acknowledged making judgments about other people based on their politics. Forty-eight percent of those polled said that knowing a person’s political views told them either a lot or a little about whether someone was a good person.

Democrats and independents were somewhat more likely than Republicans to say that politics had taken a toll on their relationships. Twenty percent of Democrats and 21 percent of independents said so, compared with 14 percent of Republicans. But in interviews, people across the ideological spectrum told similar stories of estrangement: conversations broken off with siblings and children, decades-long friendships that have gone quiet. Most dated to the early days of Mr. Trump’s presidency and have not abated since its end.