“In general, what many of the findings point to is that there are a fair number of Republicans and Democrats in Southern California who agree on the general ideas behind democracy and democratic principals,” said Karthick Ramakrishnan, a professor of public policy and political science at UC Riverside and founding director of the Center for Social Innovation.

“We asked those questions because those issues have been talked about for several months now, but people haven’t dug into the full implications of what it means,” Ramakrishnan added. “There’s been some anxiety about core values that a lot of people may have taken for granted.”

The survey, conducted from Oct. 16 to Oct. 26, with a potential error rate of 3%, found other areas of agreement, particularly on questions about how their lives have been affected by the coronavirus.

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