Abstract:Given increased political polarization and racial tension in the wake of the 2016 presidential election in the United States, this paper examines dropped ties in personal networks at that time based on political and racial identities. We employed data from the 2015-2018 UCNets study (n=1,159), a longitudinal, representative data set of the San Francisco Bay Area. In late 2015 and early 2016 it generated personal network data via multiple name generators, eliciting alters whom respondents socialized with, confi… Show more
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