It has become an axiom of political and sociological thought that we are a divided country. Blue states, red states, 50–50, two sides that absolutely cannot understand what the other side could possibly be thinking — we can’t come together on anything. It is my experience, walking around the earth (rather than staring at social media or watching cable news all day), that this is not the case. There are people with whom I fundamentally disagree on some issues that I completely agree with on others. There are people I am mostly aligned with politically who are assholes; there are people on the opposite sides of every issue from me that are truly kind, good-hearted people. This is not a difficult concept to understand for any human except those overly invested in social media, an institution that seems specifically designed to dehumanize anyone who doesn’t share your precise life experience. Life is a rich pageant, and every person is complicated. Nothing is split down the middle. Nothing, and no one, is purely good, or purely bad. If you find someone who claims they are, they are pretending. They are lying to themselves.

But this sense that our country is somehow 50–50 persists, particularly among those so entrenched in their own all-or-nothing mindsets that accepting otherwise would require them to re-analyze their worldview in a way that could prove psychologically challenging. And I’m not sure this is any more true than in the issue of abortion. Abortion, essentially my entire life, has always been seen as a bit of a third rail: You always have to be careful whom you bring it up around. The accepted wisdom — particularly among corporations and public figures looking not to alienate a large percentage of their customers and followers — was that whatever side you came down on on the abortion debate, you’d infuriate half the country. Half the people were pro-choice, half were pro-life, neither would ever back down from their position, there was no winning over anybody. Best just to stay out of it.

But this is not true, and may never have been true. Much of this may come down to the way these “debates” have been framed. Being “pro-life” is not, in fact, the opposite of being “pro-choice.” Someone can believe that an abortion is tragic, or even that it’s inherently against their religion, and still believe a woman should have the right to have one. Someone can believe abortion is health care and still be wary of a third-trimester abortion (an extremely rare procedure that’s mostly used as a rhetorical scare tactic) that doesn’t directly affect the health of the mother. Someone can fight any sort of stigma being involved with abortion and still struggle emotionally with their own history with it. The world is big and complicated. Nothing is simply black or white.

But one thing is increasingly clear, now that Roe v. Wade has been overturned: This country is not polarized, or split, about whether or not abortion should be legal. This country believes it should be. By a large margin.

Polls have shown for years that between 62–70 percent of Americans believe abortion should be legal in all or most cases, but those are polls: The last few years of American political discourse, and its result, have given everyone a healthy suspicion of polls. And many of those polls were conducted before the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, something that many Americans believed would never actually happen. Now that it has, though: The numbers are looking even more stark. One need look no farther than Kansas.

Last night, Kansas — a state that has not voted for a Democratic Presidential nominee since LBJ, and before him, FDR — became the first state to put an actual amendment on the ballot for voters, asking them whether or not there should be an amendment that removed the right to abortion from the state constitution. States that have taken away abortion rights, in the wake of Roe v. Wade, have generally done so via extremist state legislatures, where a bunch of old white guys get together to vote and say crazy-ass things like this:

But this was an actual vote, with actual citizens, with actual consequences. In Kansas. And by a 59–41 margin — in Kansas! — the amendment was shot down. This is a state that voted for Trump over Biden 56–42. It is one of the reddest states in the union. And it wants abortion to be legal … by a huge, huge amount. From The New York Times story:

Registered Republicans far outnumber Democrats in Kansas — and abortion rights activists made explicit appeals to unaffiliated voters and center-right voters. In interviews last week in populous Johnson County, Kan., a number of voters said they were registered Republicans but opposed the amendment — a dynamic that almost certainly played out across the state, given the margin.

“We’re watching the votes come in, we’re seeing the changes of some of the counties where Donald Trump had a huge percentage of the vote, and we’re seeing that just decimated,” said Jo Dee Adelung, 63, a Democrat from Merriam, Kan., who knocked on doors and called voters in recent weeks.

Much of the takeaway from the result has been filtered through the upcoming midterms, the idea being that Democrats could be able to channel that sort of passion into voting for their candidates in November. That may be true: Certainly the Democratic party is the party that is for abortion rights. But the larger issue is that, for the vast majority of Americans, a large number of them Republicans, legal abortion isn’t inherently a political issue at all, or at least not something that (so far) would make them change their political party or inherent beliefs. They just think that abortion should be legal. Nearly 60 percent of Kansans think that. Surely, a larger percentage of Americans as a whole believe it. It’s no longer debatable.

If you believe that abortion should be illegal, you are holding a fringe position. That that fringe position — thanks to the absurd vagaries of the Supreme Court nominating procedure — is shared by the highest court in the land does not make it less fringe. People who want abortion rights taken away aren’t just on the wrong side of history. They’re on the wrong side of now.

Will Leitch writes multiple pieces a week for Medium. Make sure to follow him right here. He lives in Athens, Georgia, with his family and is the author of five books, including the Edgar-nominated novel How Lucky, now out from Harper Books. He also writes a free weekly newsletter that you might enjoy.