(ANALYSIS) No term takes me back to my graduate school days like the “Culture War.” And for good reason: It was one of the biggest methodological debates in political science. The other position was articulated in the aptly titled “Culture War? But beyond the debate over who is polarized in the U.S., there’s an adjacent, and perhaps more critical, discussion I want to tackle today: What drives polarized views? This, after all, was the impetus behind Pat Buchanan’s famous 1992 Culture War speech at the Republican National Convention. — Trans Acceptance: Greater acceptance of transgender people... (Coded “change for the better” as support).