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Posted: 2020-12-03T21:48:10Z | Updated: 2020-12-03T21:48:10Z

In the weeks following a presidential election, political analysis often turns into playing with blocs, segmenting the electorate into the womens vote, the Latino vote, the youth vote and so on. This is, of course, an inherent oversimplification: Every voter has multiple, overlapping demographic and political identities.

Those identities, as a new HuffPost/YouGov survey finds, matter much more to some people than they do to others.

Some female voters, for instance, feel a strong sense of kinship with other women, while others consider gender basically irrelevant. And often, there are marked partisan differences in which facets of identity voters find to be most important.

Partisanship itself is a powerful uniting factor. Among voters who identify with one of the parties, 53% said they share a lot of common interests and concerns with others in their party. Thats more than 20 percentage points higher than the share who expressed similar feelings about any of six other groupings gender, age, race, religion, location and finances included in the survey. Democrats and Republicans were about equally likely to express a sense of partisan kinship.

Overall, 36% of female voters and one-quarter of male voters said they share a lot of common interests and concerns with others of the same gender.

Democratic female voters were the most likely to see gender as a meaningful grouping: 45% said they shared a lot of common interests and concerns based on gender. Just 23% of Republican female voters, and fewer than one-third of male voters in either party, said the same.