This would be a good thing if it were true. Politics is not a product where your choice of whether to consume the red, blue, or green thing is an irrelevant expression of your personality or style. It's always life or death, and that fact is disguised when it doesn't mean
your life or death.
This survey is also corrupted by self-reporting. People like to pretend that they're more tolerant than they are (especially when they don't have a comfortable or civil argument for their intolerance.) In fact, I bet if you followed up with a bit of a Keynesian beauty contest, you'd find that they report that the tribe that they belong to is far more tolerant than the enemy tribe.
And for a fact pulled out of my ass, I bet if you checked the proportion of people who married outside of their race or religion 50 years ago, it would be <1% (at least for people who claimed a race or religion.) If you checked now, the numbers would be 4-6% IIRC. That's an improvement. You might find a higher percentage of mixed Democrat/Republican relationships 50 years ago (maybe), but if that number has dropped, that's also an improvement. Material differences in opinions about how the world should be run and people should behave should at least be more significant than race or (the mystical aspects, not the moral codes of) religion. It means that society is becoming more supportive of people trying to escape their tribal affiliations. 80 years ago, in the US, there were laws actively preventing this.
This survey is also corrupted by self-reporting. People like to pretend that they're more tolerant than they are (especially when they don't have a comfortable or civil argument for their intolerance.) In fact, I bet if you followed up with a bit of a Keynesian beauty contest, you'd find that they report that the tribe that they belong to is far more tolerant than the enemy tribe.
And for a fact pulled out of my ass, I bet if you checked the proportion of people who married outside of their race or religion 50 years ago, it would be <1% (at least for people who claimed a race or religion.) If you checked now, the numbers would be 4-6% IIRC. That's an improvement. You might find a higher percentage of mixed Democrat/Republican relationships 50 years ago (maybe), but if that number has dropped, that's also an improvement. Material differences in opinions about how the world should be run and people should behave should at least be more significant than race or (the mystical aspects, not the moral codes of) religion. It means that society is becoming more supportive of people trying to escape their tribal affiliations. 80 years ago, in the US, there were laws actively preventing this.