What is Similarity Hub?
Politicians, the media, and social media users face incentives to paint a divided picture of America, making us forget how united we really are.
Similarity Hub from AllSides and More Like US helps solve this problem by collecting public opinion data that corrects political misperceptions, highlights common ground, and helps people feel calmer and more united.
Explore the Full Dataset
Here, you can browse recent survey data on common ground among U.S. adults. Learn more about our data inclusion criteria below.
| Survey Statement | % Agree | % R | % D | % I | Source | Topic | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| "say that elected officials using heated or aggressive language about certain people or groups makes violence against them more likely." | All: 73% | R: 61% | D: 91% | Free Speech | 2019 | ||
| "say social media companies have a responsibility to remove offensive content from their platforms." | All: 66% | R: 52% | D: 77% | Free Speech | 2019 | ||
| "think a person who has been convicted of a non-violent felony should be allowed to vote after serving their sentence." | All: 65% | R: 54% | D: 79% | I: 60% | Criminal Justice | 2019 |
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*Data older than 5 years may not accurately reflect current public opinion. Similarity Hub will not feature this data on other pages.
**%R indicates the percentage of Republicans or Republicans and Republican-leaners agreeing with the statement. %D indicates the percentage of Democrats or Democrats and Democrat-leaners agreeing with the statement.
What Similarity Hub Does and Doesn’t Include
Similarity Hub prioritizes and highlights data about common ground; not all data fits that purpose. Thus, AllSides and More Like US created criteria on what we will and won’t include.
Similarity Hub includes…
- Information that corrects damaging political misperceptions and/or is useful for bipartisan policy
- Survey data in which at least 70% of respondents agree, or in which at least 50% of Democratic-leaning respondents and 50% of Republican-leaning respondents agree
Similarity Hub does NOT include…
- Survey questions that make a value judgment about a specific identity group of people (This could include negative judgments, like “China has a negative impact on the world,” or positive judgments, like “Mexicans are hard workers.”)
- Survey questions based on loaded questions and/or unfounded assumptions (For instance, people who "disagree that individual action makes no difference in reducing climate change" could include those who support collective climate action and those who disbelieve in climate change.)
- Data from surveys likely biased by recent events (Such as data about the Israel-Hamas War collected during a turning point in the war, which may vary significantly from other surveys.)