September 12, 2023
Democracy Journal
In its landmark “Hidden Tribes” survey report from 2018, More in Common, a nonprofit that studies polarization and ways to overcome it, identified a segment of “Moderates” comprising 15 percent of the U.S. population. Moderates tend to be “engaged in their communities, well informed, and civic-minded.” They also “shy away from extremism of any sort.” Like other segments in what More in Common calls the “exhausted majority,” Moderates often feel overlooked in politics.