David A. Hopkins
@davehopkins.bsky.social
Political scientist at Boston College & (co-)author of Polarized by Degrees / Asymmetric Politics / Red Fighting Blue / Presidential Elections. Blog at Honest Graft.
Five Lessons from the 2025 Election Results:
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Five Lessons from the 2025 Election Results
“Unless the president is unusually popular, the party holding the White House will suffer significant losses in off-year elections” is a very well-established pattern, so nothing about the Democratic ...
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November 6, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Five Lessons from the 2025 Election Results:
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Five Lessons from the 2025 Election Results:
honestgraft.substack.com/p/five-lesso...
honestgraft.substack.com/p/five-lesso...
Five Lessons from the 2025 Election Results
“Unless the president is unusually popular, the party holding the White House will suffer significant losses in off-year elections” is a very well-established pattern, so nothing about the Democratic ...
honestgraft.substack.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Five Lessons from the 2025 Election Results:
honestgraft.substack.com/p/five-lesso...
honestgraft.substack.com/p/five-lesso...
Five Lessons from the 2025 Election Results:
honestgraft.substack.com/p/five-lesso...
honestgraft.substack.com/p/five-lesso...
Five Lessons from the 2025 Election Results
“Unless the president is unusually popular, the party holding the White House will suffer significant losses in off-year elections” is a very well-established pattern, so nothing about the Democratic ...
honestgraft.substack.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Five Lessons from the 2025 Election Results:
honestgraft.substack.com/p/five-lesso...
honestgraft.substack.com/p/five-lesso...
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When party ID outweighs #policy, what’s left to debate? “For a lot of people who are partisans, their identity as a partisan is more central to them than their position on most policy issues," says @davehopkins.bsky.social .
From @zeeshanaleem.bsky.social of @msnbc.com ⤵️
From @zeeshanaleem.bsky.social of @msnbc.com ⤵️
Opinion | What Democrats’s debate on ‘oligarchy’ is really about
Sen. Elissa Slotkin's aversion to using "oligarchy" summarizes the Dems’ crisis.
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May 5, 2025 at 7:07 PM
When party ID outweighs #policy, what’s left to debate? “For a lot of people who are partisans, their identity as a partisan is more central to them than their position on most policy issues," says @davehopkins.bsky.social .
From @zeeshanaleem.bsky.social of @msnbc.com ⤵️
From @zeeshanaleem.bsky.social of @msnbc.com ⤵️
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Understanding the diploma divide
@davehopkins.bsky.social & I were on the The Vital Center podcast in a first-of-it's-kind @niskanencenter.bsky.social pod crossover event!
www.niskanencenter.org/understandin...
@davehopkins.bsky.social & I were on the The Vital Center podcast in a first-of-it's-kind @niskanencenter.bsky.social pod crossover event!
www.niskanencenter.org/understandin...
Understanding the diploma divide, with Matt Grossmann and Dave Hopkins - Niskanen Center
In this podcast discussion, Grossmann and Hopkins argue that educated liberals are winning the culture war.
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April 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Understanding the diploma divide
@davehopkins.bsky.social & I were on the The Vital Center podcast in a first-of-it's-kind @niskanencenter.bsky.social pod crossover event!
www.niskanencenter.org/understandin...
@davehopkins.bsky.social & I were on the The Vital Center podcast in a first-of-it's-kind @niskanencenter.bsky.social pod crossover event!
www.niskanencenter.org/understandin...
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"The best work of quantitative social science I have read in many years."
George Hawley reviews @mattgrossmann.bsky.social and @davehopkins.bsky.social's "Polarized by Degrees." lawliberty.org/book-review/...
George Hawley reviews @mattgrossmann.bsky.social and @davehopkins.bsky.social's "Polarized by Degrees." lawliberty.org/book-review/...
The Diploma Divide – George Hawley
Education has become one of the most defining differences between America's political parties.
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March 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM
"The best work of quantitative social science I have read in many years."
George Hawley reviews @mattgrossmann.bsky.social and @davehopkins.bsky.social's "Polarized by Degrees." lawliberty.org/book-review/...
George Hawley reviews @mattgrossmann.bsky.social and @davehopkins.bsky.social's "Polarized by Degrees." lawliberty.org/book-review/...
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The “diploma divide” is a driver of U.S. polarization, according to Political Science Professor @davehopkins.bsky.social, co-author of a new book on the subject, who discusses it on California public radio's @kqednews.bsky.social.
bit.ly/DiplomaDivide...
bit.ly/DiplomaDivide...
How the ‘Diploma Divide’ Polarizes the U.S. Electorate | KQED
We'll talk to David Hopkins about our education divide and its political impacts. His new book, with co-author Matt Grossman, is "Polarized by Degrees."
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January 22, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The “diploma divide” is a driver of U.S. polarization, according to Political Science Professor @davehopkins.bsky.social, co-author of a new book on the subject, who discusses it on California public radio's @kqednews.bsky.social.
bit.ly/DiplomaDivide...
bit.ly/DiplomaDivide...
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The best explanation of our current politics I’ve come across is in a new book: Polarized by Degrees: How the Diploma Divide and the Culture War Transformed American Politics. We talk to co-author @davehopkins.bsky.social in the latest @haveyouheard.bsky.social on.soundcloud.com/uzUNxzwzmueB...
#190 Degrees of Separation
Our biggest political divide these days isn’t race or gender but education - and that division is only getting worse. We talk to the co-author of a new book that offers the single best explanation we’
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January 9, 2025 at 2:44 PM
The best explanation of our current politics I’ve come across is in a new book: Polarized by Degrees: How the Diploma Divide and the Culture War Transformed American Politics. We talk to co-author @davehopkins.bsky.social in the latest @haveyouheard.bsky.social on.soundcloud.com/uzUNxzwzmueB...
This is great news for us at BC as well!
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Now that the term is officially over, I'm delighted to announce that I'll be starting as an AP of American Politics at Boston College's poli sci department next summer! I'm really excited for this new chapter, and my family and I are looking forward to being back in Boston. 1/2
December 16, 2024 at 8:43 PM
This is great news for us at BC as well!
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Ken Kersch was a wonderful colleague and an exceptional teacher and scholar. It's a very sad time for all of us at BC and we'll miss him terribly.
December 3, 2024 at 9:27 PM
Ken Kersch was a wonderful colleague and an exceptional teacher and scholar. It's a very sad time for all of us at BC and we'll miss him terribly.
I am among the many professional colleagues quoted in
Tom Edsall's latest NY Times column on the future of the Democratic Party after 2024:
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/o...
Tom Edsall's latest NY Times column on the future of the Democratic Party after 2024:
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/o...
November 20, 2024 at 10:06 PM
I am among the many professional colleagues quoted in
Tom Edsall's latest NY Times column on the future of the Democratic Party after 2024:
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/o...
Tom Edsall's latest NY Times column on the future of the Democratic Party after 2024:
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/o...
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. @mattgrossmann.bsky.social / @davehopkins.bsky.social
examine how “culturally progressive technocracy” is sparking a backlash that’s reshaped conservative politics along the way. hypertext.niskanencenter.org/p/the-rise-o...
examine how “culturally progressive technocracy” is sparking a backlash that’s reshaped conservative politics along the way. hypertext.niskanencenter.org/p/the-rise-o...
The rise of the caps and gowns
How education is transforming culture and culture is transforming politics
hypertext.niskanencenter.org
October 30, 2024 at 5:04 PM
. @mattgrossmann.bsky.social / @davehopkins.bsky.social
examine how “culturally progressive technocracy” is sparking a backlash that’s reshaped conservative politics along the way. hypertext.niskanencenter.org/p/the-rise-o...
examine how “culturally progressive technocracy” is sparking a backlash that’s reshaped conservative politics along the way. hypertext.niskanencenter.org/p/the-rise-o...
This week, @mattgrossmann.bsky.social and I appeared on the 538 Politics podcast, discussing the partisan diploma divide and our new book Polarized by Degrees. Watch a video clip below and find the complete episode in your podcast app of choice:
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Video Is education the main dividing line in U.S. politics? | 538 Politics podcast
538’s Galen Druke and professors Matt Grossman and David Hopkins discuss the Diploma Divide and whether college degrees have become a deciding factor in political affiliation.
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October 25, 2024 at 7:18 PM
This week, @mattgrossmann.bsky.social and I appeared on the 538 Politics podcast, discussing the partisan diploma divide and our new book Polarized by Degrees. Watch a video clip below and find the complete episode in your podcast app of choice:
abcnews.go.com/538/video/ed...
abcnews.go.com/538/video/ed...
In the 2024 Elections, It's a Man's Man's Man's Republican Party:
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In the 2024 Elections, It's a Man's Man's Man's Republican Party
One of the most important consequences of Donald Trump's political ascendance in 2016 was the effect it had on the political engagement of women.
honestgraft.substack.com
October 24, 2024 at 8:32 PM
In the 2024 Elections, It's a Man's Man's Man's Republican Party:
honestgraft.substack.com/p/in-the-202...
honestgraft.substack.com/p/in-the-202...
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I've written about the "diploma divide" in White political behavior from a variety of angles, but I think once the dust settles from the 2024 election people will accept educational attainment is the *dominant* cleavage among White Americans.
fs.wp.odu.edu/jzingher/pub...
fs.wp.odu.edu/jzingher/pub...
October 9, 2024 at 2:43 PM
I've written about the "diploma divide" in White political behavior from a variety of angles, but I think once the dust settles from the 2024 election people will accept educational attainment is the *dominant* cleavage among White Americans.
fs.wp.odu.edu/jzingher/pub...
fs.wp.odu.edu/jzingher/pub...
Just published today in Governing magazine,
@mattgrossmann.bsky.social and I have a new article identifying the ways that the diploma divide is redefining American politics. It's a distillation of the argument in our new book Polarized by Degrees:
www.governing.com/magazine/the...
@mattgrossmann.bsky.social and I have a new article identifying the ways that the diploma divide is redefining American politics. It's a distillation of the argument in our new book Polarized by Degrees:
www.governing.com/magazine/the...
The Most Important Divide in American Politics
Democrats receive increasing levels of support from college-educated Americans, but this has triggered a populist backlash and sharpened polarization.
www.governing.com
October 1, 2024 at 5:42 PM
Just published today in Governing magazine,
@mattgrossmann.bsky.social and I have a new article identifying the ways that the diploma divide is redefining American politics. It's a distillation of the argument in our new book Polarized by Degrees:
www.governing.com/magazine/the...
@mattgrossmann.bsky.social and I have a new article identifying the ways that the diploma divide is redefining American politics. It's a distillation of the argument in our new book Polarized by Degrees:
www.governing.com/magazine/the...
I'm thrilled that Polarized by Degrees, my new book with
@mattgrossmann.bsky.social, is now available! We explain how the rise of the "Educultural Realignment" in the 21st century has redefined the American parties' constituencies, policies & styles of governing:
www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
@mattgrossmann.bsky.social, is now available! We explain how the rise of the "Educultural Realignment" in the 21st century has redefined the American parties' constituencies, policies & styles of governing:
www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
September 25, 2024 at 11:05 PM
I'm thrilled that Polarized by Degrees, my new book with
@mattgrossmann.bsky.social, is now available! We explain how the rise of the "Educultural Realignment" in the 21st century has redefined the American parties' constituencies, policies & styles of governing:
www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
@mattgrossmann.bsky.social, is now available! We explain how the rise of the "Educultural Realignment" in the 21st century has redefined the American parties' constituencies, policies & styles of governing:
www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
Post-Debate Wrap Up: Not Much to Learn, But a Clear Story Forms
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Post-Debate Wrap Up: Not Much to Learn, But a Clear Story Forms
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September 11, 2024 at 4:13 AM
Post-Debate Wrap Up: Not Much to Learn, But a Clear Story Forms
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Polarized by Degrees is here! For #APSA2024 attendees, we have an Authors Meet Critics panel with @juliaazari.bsky.social, Suzanne Mettler & Josh Zingher today at 10:00 am in Loews Hotel Commonwealth C, and @mattgrossmann.bsky.social & I will be signing books Friday at 3:30 at the Cambridge UP booth
September 5, 2024 at 12:55 PM
Polarized by Degrees is here! For #APSA2024 attendees, we have an Authors Meet Critics panel with @juliaazari.bsky.social, Suzanne Mettler & Josh Zingher today at 10:00 am in Loews Hotel Commonwealth C, and @mattgrossmann.bsky.social & I will be signing books Friday at 3:30 at the Cambridge UP booth
Democratic Convention Wrap-Up: 16 Years Later, It's Still Obama's Party:
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Democratic Convention Wrap-Up: 16 Years Later, It's Still Obama's Party
In both substance and style, Democrats partied like it's 2008
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August 23, 2024 at 8:28 PM
Democratic Convention Wrap-Up: 16 Years Later, It's Still Obama's Party:
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Honest Graft: Did Dumping Biden Make the Democrats Un-Democratic? Yes...and No
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Did Dumping Biden Make the Democrats Un-Democratic? Yes...and No
Is democracy served when violating established procedural norms actually gives most citizens what they want?
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July 29, 2024 at 6:29 PM
Honest Graft: Did Dumping Biden Make the Democrats Un-Democratic? Yes...and No
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Honest Graft: Biden Decides to Drop Out: The View from Political Science
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Biden Decides to Drop Out: The View from Political Science
What can we learn about politics from another unprecedented event?
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July 22, 2024 at 4:44 AM
Honest Graft: Biden Decides to Drop Out: The View from Political Science
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The newest episode of The Odd Years Podcast with
Amy Walter (of the Cook Political Report & PBS) features a fun conversation with @mattgrossmann.bsky.social and me about our forthcoming book Polarized by Degrees. It's available via podcast apps or this link:
www.cookpolitical.com/CPR-access/o...
Amy Walter (of the Cook Political Report & PBS) features a fun conversation with @mattgrossmann.bsky.social and me about our forthcoming book Polarized by Degrees. It's available via podcast apps or this link:
www.cookpolitical.com/CPR-access/o...
The Odd Years Podcast
Listen and follow:
www.cookpolitical.com
June 26, 2024 at 5:26 PM
The newest episode of The Odd Years Podcast with
Amy Walter (of the Cook Political Report & PBS) features a fun conversation with @mattgrossmann.bsky.social and me about our forthcoming book Polarized by Degrees. It's available via podcast apps or this link:
www.cookpolitical.com/CPR-access/o...
Amy Walter (of the Cook Political Report & PBS) features a fun conversation with @mattgrossmann.bsky.social and me about our forthcoming book Polarized by Degrees. It's available via podcast apps or this link:
www.cookpolitical.com/CPR-access/o...
I recently spoke with Angelina Parrillo of the Boston Globe about the growing difference in how Republicans and Democrats view the field of higher education and the value of a college degree — a gap confirmed by a new poll by the Globe and Emerson College:
www.bostonglobe.com/2024/04/11/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2024/04/11/m...
April 23, 2024 at 5:47 PM
I recently spoke with Angelina Parrillo of the Boston Globe about the growing difference in how Republicans and Democrats view the field of higher education and the value of a college degree — a gap confirmed by a new poll by the Globe and Emerson College:
www.bostonglobe.com/2024/04/11/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2024/04/11/m...