Consider this a required read - and this might help some students with their paper topics.
For 25 years the Pew Research Center has studied American values and published the results. 25 years gives you a good trend line and their most recent study shows that partisan differences have never been greater - despite the fact that differences along other measures (race, education, gender, etc. . . ) haven;t changed much.
This is worth a review, at least in 2301.
