What political group do you belong in? A new Pew Research Center study is sorting Americans into nine different political types.

There are four subgroups on the Democrat side, and four on the Republican side — with one middle group titled the “Tuned-Out Middle,” the Washington Post reported.

The groups were formed after surveying over 10,000 American adults in a random sampling, showing key differences plaguing the nation’s two major political parties, according to the 2026 “Political Typology” study.

On the Democrat side, voters are divided by how to address transgender issues, crime and whether they like the “democratic socialist” label, the Post said, and on the Republican side, voters are divided by how eager people are to humiliate a political opponent and topics like whether abortion should be legal or carrying a gun in public should be commonplace.

In the surveying process, which took place between Nov. 17-30, 2025, the voters were asked their opinions on the role of government, economic issues, immigration, elected officials and other topics in a series of 30 political attitude questions.

The nine ideological political categories are based on “a cluster analysis” include (from leftmost to rightmost):

  • Leftward Progressives 7%
  • Loyal Liberals at 11%
  • Left-Out Left at 12%
  • Order and Opportunity Left at 18%
  • Tuned-Out Middle at 9%
  • Pragmatic and Polite Right at 11%
  • Unconventional Right at 12%
  • Faith First Conservatives at 12%
  • No Apologies Right at 9%

This is also the order in which the groups support President Donald Trump — from least to most.

The leftmost two anchor groups make up 17% of the public, and the rightmost two anchor groups make up 21% of the public, according to Pew.

“It’s an effort to sort the public not just in the Democratic and Republican lanes that we’re all so used to,” said Jocelyn Kiley, director of research on U.S. politics at the Pew Research Center.

The full descriptions and distinctions between each category can be found within the study.

This Pew study has been conducted around every five years since 1987, with the hypothetical question of how Americans would sort themselves if not grouped into two political parties, the Post reported.

Anyone curious about where they fit into the nine political groups can take Pew Research Center’s online quiz.