Credit: Jordan Vonderhaar for The Texas Tribune Editor's note: If you'd like an email notice whenever we publish Ross Ramsey's column, click here. If you would like to listen to the column, just click on the play button below. Most Texans donât think the political divisions in the state are as bad as they look; 81% told surveyors for a new Threads of Texas project that Texansâ common attitudes outnumber their differences. The project, which launches Monday, edges into activism: More in Common, the outfit doing it, will turn to working with other organizations on civic and policy projects, using its assessments of public opinion. The nonprofit bills itself as a nonpartisan counter to divisive politics, out to âaddress the underlying drivers of fracturing and polarization.â