Should the United States get a “national divorce”?
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 20 March 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Should America get a divorce? Twenty percent of Americans think so, an unsurprising number given rising partisan animosity in the US. Yet depression and anxiety are also growing. Is this a coincidence?
Author: Jim Denison, PhD
Narrator: Chris Elkins
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| 1:00.2 | Welcome to the Daily Article Podcast. Today is Monday, |
| 1:06.8 | March the 20th, 2023. I'm Chris Elkins, narrating today's article written by Denison Forum, |
| 1:13.6 | co-founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison. Should America get a divorce from itself? 20% of Americans think so, believing Republican and Democrat-leaning states should split |
| 1:19.6 | into separate countries. |
| 1:21.6 | 20% sounds like a small number. |
| 1:23.6 | However, as Axios notes, it represents 66 million people, roughly equivalent to |
| 1:31.3 | everyone in Texas, Wyoming, West Virginia, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Idaho, Arkansas, |
| 1:39.0 | Kentucky, South Dakota, Alabama, Georgia, and Nebraska combined. |
| 1:45.0 | It is also larger than the populations of most countries in the world. |
| 1:50.0 | This finding is unsurprising as partisan animosity continues to rise. |
| 1:56.0 | 72% of Republicans now say Democrats are dishonest and immoral. 64% of Democrats say Democrats are dishonest and immoral. |
| 2:00.9 | 64% of Democrats say Republicans are dishonest, while 63% say they are immoral. |
| 2:07.6 | In 1994, fewer than a quarter of the people in both parties rated the other party very |
| 2:14.8 | unfavorably. |
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