Democratic-leaning children are five times more likely to say they wouldn’t visit the pro-Trump family’s home, according to a CNN study

More than 40 hours of interviews with 10-year-olds in several states concluded that children who support former President Trump are more willing to visit the homes of families with opposing views than their Democratic-leaning counterparts.

“Researchers have found that children who support Democrats are driving polarization in a new study,” CNN reported Thursday, suggesting that children who lean Democratic are more likely to discriminate against Trump supporters, while children red states are more likely to repeat “misinformation.”

The results were drawn from more than 40 hours of interviews commissioned by CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” that surveyed 80 elementary school students in Arizona, New Jersey and Texas. The interviews, conducted with parental or guardian consent, took place both in the spring, before President Biden forfeited the nomination, and in the fall, long after Vice President Kamala Harris took the baton.

In both seasons, Arizona State University associate professor, child development expert and media psychologist Asheley Landrum spoke with the children and noticed some key differences between the respondents.

The children were shown a picture of houses with signs for the Democratic and Republican candidates and were asked if they would visit the house of a child whose family supported the candidate but their family did not.

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“Democratic-leaning children were approximately nine times more likely (or 800% more likely) to express negative feelings (nervous/worried or angry/frustrated) about Donald Trump than Republican-leaning children about Kamala Harris,” the study explains.

CNN host Anderson Cooper summarized on his show that “overall, the biggest finding” was that “the children in the study were polarized, with researchers finding more extreme reactions among the blue state children than among the red state children exhibited.”

“Donald Trump, he’s done bad things, he’s like Hitler,” said one Democratic-leaning boy.

When asked what the first word that comes to mind about the candidate they oppose, one child said it was “liar” for Harris, while another said “purple evil” for Trump.

Landrum also showed each child a picture of two houses, one with a sign for the Republican ticket and one with the Democratic ticket, and asked if they or their families would be okay with them staying in a family home with a friend played supports the opposing party.

“Most, Landrum said, were willing to visit the home of either political party. But she adds that a higher percentage of pro-Democrat children – a third of them in September – were unwilling to visit the homes of children whose families support Trump,” CNN reported. “Few of the pro-Trump kids said they wouldn’t be willing to visit a Democratic-backed house.”

CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” commissioned a study that surveyed 80 elementary school students in Arizona, New Jersey and Texas.

In May, a child from a Biden-supporting family suggested that if they all went to a Trump-supporting family’s house there would be an argument, “maybe like a food fight or something.”

When an African-American child was asked if his family would be okay with him going to the house of a child whose family supported Trump, he replied, “No, because they know he doesn’t like black people, so they wouldn’t be happy about it.” .” Me.”

Another also said his family wouldn’t allow him to visit the home of a Trump-supporting family: “No. Absolutely not. Because my parents don’t like Donald Trump at all. Not one bit.”

Meanwhile, another boy was asked if it would be OK for him to go to someone’s house who likes Harris and he replied: “I think it would be OK, it’s just about personality.”

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Questions have also been raised about whether children living in homes of Trump supporters and Harris supporters could be friends.

One girl suggested that people can be friends despite their differences: “I like Taylor Swift and they like Olivia Rodrigo, but we’re still friends.”

“It doesn’t matter if you are different because of the color of your skin or if you are different people, you can still be friends,” said another boy.

Landrum offered a theory as to why the reactions of Democratic-leaning kids were so much more polarized than those of Republicans.

“So Donald Trump is a very polarizing figure, and it’s very possible that the kids are reacting to that, that their parents are reacting to that, that Donald Trump is a very different kind of political figure than what we’ve seen before,” she said on CNN. “So do the red state children have just as strong an attitude? Well, not if we’re talking about Kamala Harris, that might be partly because they don’t know that much about her.”

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