Matt Grossmann: How the Diploma Divide and the Culture War Realigned American Politics

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🗓️ 6 September 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Matt Grossmann, Director of the Institute for Public Policy and Social Research, Senior Fellow at the Niskanen Center, and co-author of Polarized by Degrees: How the Diploma Divide and the Culture War Transformed American Politics, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Matt discuss how the growing diploma divide reshaped post-Cold War politics, how Democrats became the party of highly-educated Americans who trust credentialed experts and Republicans became populists supported by voters without college degrees who distrust institutions, why the culture wars increasingly feel perpetual, and how every aspect of non-political American culture politicized over the past 40 years.

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0:00.0	Marshall here.
0:01.0	Welcome back to the realignment.
0:03.0	Hey everyone, welcome back to the realignment.
0:04.0	Hey everyone, welcome back to the show.
0:10.0	Today's episode is with Michigan State Professor and the scanning
0:14.3	Center senior fellow Matt Grossman. He has a new book out. It's called Polarized by
0:18.0	degrees. The book is all about the idea that Culture Wars and the diploma divide have realigned American politics, changing
0:26.3	the left and the rights approach to sociocultural and economic questions since the 1980s.
0:31.8	I think this topic is at the very center of the political
0:34.4	realignment. Silvis is a great episode to bone up on everything that's
0:38.6	determining the course of the next few years. Hope you all enjoy the
0:42.0	conversation and a huge thank you to the Foundation for American Innovation,
0:45.7	supporting the work of this podcast.
0:48.0	Matt Gressman, welcome to the realignment.
0:54.0	Thanks, great to be with you.
0:56.0	I'm really pumped to speak with you.
0:58.0	We're going to hit political realignment, the diploma divide,
1:02.0	and of course the ever present culture war.
1:06.0	So let's just start by defining academic and political concepts that get thrown around a lot but
1:11.6	I don't think people here explain just
1:13.8	coherently what we're actually talking about here. When we are describing an
1:17.4	increasing diploma divided in American politics, what are we talking about?
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