{"id":311393,"date":"2026-06-10T14:02:57","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T18:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/?p=311393"},"modified":"2026-07-09T15:24:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T19:24:06","slug":"beyond-red-vs-blue-the-political-typology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/politics\/2026\/06\/10\/beyond-red-vs-blue-the-political-typology\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Red vs. Blue: The Political Typology"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nine groups show the conflicting values underlying today\u2019s polarized politics<\/h2>\n\n\n
About this research<\/summary>\n

This Pew Research Center study goes beyond Americans\u2019 partisan attachments and vote choices to explore the values and attitudes that underlie the political landscape and the Republican and Democratic parties. We did this by creating a political typology, which classifies the public into nine groups based on their responses to 30 questions about government, economics, immigration, elected officials and other topics. To learn more about this project, jump to \u201cAbout the political typology<\/a>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why did we do this?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Pew Research Center conducts research to help the public, media and decision-makers understand important topics. We have studied Americans\u2019 political values and attitudes, and their views on politics more broadly, for decades. This is the ninth version of the political typology<\/a>; the first was conducted nearly 40 years ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Learn more about Pew Research Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How did we do this?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

We surveyed 10,357 U.S. adults from Nov. 17 to 30, 2025. Everyone who took part in this survey is a member of the Center\u2019s American Trends Panel. The survey represents the views of the full U.S. adult population. We then used a statistical technique called cluster analysis to divide people into nine groups. (For more on the process of dividing people into groups and surveys used for analysis, jump to Appendix B<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are the survey questions<\/a>\u00a0used for this analysis, the detailed responses<\/a> and the survey methodology<\/a>.<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n

American politics is deeply divided along partisan lines<\/a> \u2013 and for many Americans, the choice between the two parties feels stark, even existential. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But beneath that familiar red-blue partisan divide is a much more nuanced picture: Many Americans hold a complex mix of values and beliefs that don\u2019t always fit neatly into either major party.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The 2026 Pew Research Center Political Typology<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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