Judy Woodruff:

As almost all of us have noticed, Americans have been growing more and more politically divided.

Now a new survey by the Pew Research Center finds that Americans believe that polarization will deepen in the coming decades.

Our economics correspondent, Paul Solman, is just back from Louisiana, where he looked at some of those big divides, and particularly with regard to jobs, industry, and how to regulate industrial pollution.

It's part of our weekly series Making Sense.