US Families at War?

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-44320026

Trump election shortens US Thanksgiving family dinners

Researchers say that Thanksgiving visits to family members in 2016 were significantly shorter due to greater political polarisation after President Trump's election.

Anonymous cell phone data on 10 million users was combined with voting records to establish voter movements.

The team found that electors cut the time spent with political opponents by up 30-50 minutes compared to 2015.

Voters exposed to widespread political TV ads spent even less time on visits.

The traditional US Thanksgiving holiday visit and dinner is one of the more widely observed rituals in American life, drawing together young and old family members often from distant locations.

However Thanksgiving dinners can also be awkward especially with greater political polarisation in the US in recent years.

The authors were inspired to carry out this study after suffering "uncomfortable and politically divisive" Thanksgiving dinners themselves in 2016 and having had many anecdotal accounts of similar experiences.

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In my family we're all Libertarians. Democrites and Rethuglicans are summarily executed.

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In my family we're all Libertarians. Democrites and Rethuglicans are summarily executed.

Don't know what all these new fangled words mean. I was a pragmatic utilitarian until I ran out of money and discovered religion was the ultimate scam in anxious times if you can bat with it. The remainder is the 17 C.