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title: "Partisan Gap on Diverse Communities"
description: "Democrats are more likely than Republicans to give diversity-oriented responses to questions about community."
date: "2009-01-12"
authors:
  - name: "Russell Heimlich"
    job_title: "Former web developer"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/russell-heimlich/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2009/01/12/partisan-gap-on-diverse-communities/"
---

# Partisan Gap on Diverse Communities

When given a battery of questions on the desire for diversity in their community, partisanship created the largest gap in attitudes with 58% of Democrats giving diversity-oriented responses to four of five questions compared with 35% of Republicans. Furthermore, combining ideology with partisanship produces a wider gap; 65% of liberal Democrats, but just 32% of conservative Republicans, give the pro-diversity responses to four of the five questions. Independents (57% give four pro-diversity responses) are closer to Democrats than Republicans. Those with higher levels of education and those who seldom attend religious services are also more likely to give pro-diversity responses. [Read More](https://www.pewresearch.org/pubs/1045/americans-claim-to-like-diverse-communities-but-do-they-really)