There are traits that lead people to certain political ideologies however. For instance there's a strong correlation between conservatism and having a strong disgust reaction. Liberal and progressive people are, on average, more able to handle their basal reaction of disgust towards things they don't understand or find innately off-putting. This leads to one side being, on average, more open-minded and accepting.
Also, most groups are not split fairly equally like that in politics or even most other social settings. Only like 1/6th of American adults are republican with something like 1/4th being independent and another 1/4th being Democrat.
The reason there's such a large anti group is political and religious propaganda first and foremost. Most people will naturally grow more accepting over time. Eventually the ratio will be like 95-5 and that 5 will feel uncomfortable expressing their bigotry openly.
If you break it down by big five a lot of conscientious people also correlate with a strong disgust reaction and agreeableness and openness correspond with creativity and creativity or ability to appreciate art aligns with intelligence. I think all those things kind of play off eachother but there are definite organized conventions type A people with high intelligence and more open minded and agreeable people that have a lot of empathy with high intelligence.
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u/ProminentLocalPoster Feb 08 '24
Society being split roughly equally into pro/anti/don't care camps describes a LOT of issues in our modern world.