Hello there, I'm Chuck Todd and welcome to another episode of Meet the Press Reports.

This week we are looking at the roots of our country's polarization.

Look at its no secret this country is deeply polarized.

Just take a look at Washington and take a look at it by the numbers.

For current Senate, dead even, 50, 50 split, the House is nearly dead even, to 20 to

12.

And the 2020 election, exactly 25 states gave their electoral votes to Joe Biden and the

other 25 states went to Donald Trump.

And those divides are becoming pretty baked in.

In fact, 44 of the 50 states have voted for the same party in at least five of the last

six presidential elections.

It is pretty remarkable.

And it is created in an environment in which so much now is seen as a partisan attack.

Working with the other side on any issue is viewed as betraying your team and giving

the bad guys a win wherever you think the bad guys are.

And when the rule of law is upheld against a former president, there suddenly talk of civil

war by right wing extremists online.

So we're in quite a moment here as a nation and there is perhaps no better example of our

national divisions than the state of Wisconsin.

The state's unique political, geographical, and cultural dynamics have made it ground zero

for our nation's polarization.

Wisconsin's actually been dealing with these bitter divides for over a decade.

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