You might think that after a pretty rancorous election season
there would be lingering acrimony between people who belong to
groups embroiled in some of the campaign's most heated debates.
But if there is, a new study by Pew found that many Americans
don't feel that way. About 6 in 10 Americans find that there are
either "strong" or "very strong" conflicts between the rich and
the poor — which is down about 9 percentage points from a survey
taken in December 2011. And that was before the presidential
campaign, the intense focus on Mitt Romney's wealth and the
infamous "47 percent" video. Similarly, fewer Americans felt
that there are strong conflicts between immigrants and people
who were born in the U.S., as well. And the number of people who
see serious conflict between blacks and whites stayed about
flat, ticking up from 38 percent to 39 percent over the past
year, although the number of blacks who felt that way was
significantly higher than whites who did (54 percent to 34
percent). But despite those decl