Everyone seems to agree that the 2016 presidential election was uncivil. The problem is, no one agrees who’s to blame.

According to an annual Weber Shandwick/Powell Tate survey conducted by opinion research and strategy firm KRC Research, a vast majority (79 percent) of Americans said they thought the 2016 presidential election was uncivil, and 69 percent said the country now has a major problem with civility.

Americans remain sharply divided, however, regarding why they believe incivility has recently run amok in our political landscape.

For voters who supported Hillary Clinton, 89 percent cited politicians as the group most responsible for America’s respectability problem, followed by social media (69 percent) and traditional media (51 percent). On the other hand, only 53 percent Trump voters saw politicians as the problem, and instead blamed the media and demonstrators/protestors (77 percent and 76 percent, respectively) for America’s recent loss of political decorum, followed closely by social media (75 percent).

Three-quarters of those polled (75 percent) now believe incivility has reached crisis proportions in the United States, and more than half (56 percent) of respondents said they expect civility to get worse in the coming years. The latter statement illustrates a division along partisan lines as well, as Clinton supporters were more likely to hold that view (81 percent vs. 72 percent who do not). Trump supporters, on the other hand, were far more likely to believe that the nation will grow more civil in the future (84 percent vs. 27 percent who disagree).

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When it comes to the candidates themselves, 80 percent of Clinton voters described the Democratic Party candidate’s behavior as civil during the election, compared to only 21 percent of Trump voters. On the other hand, only 9 percent of Clinton voters thought Trump behaved in a civil manner during the election, compared to 46 percent of Trump voters.

The notion that fewer than half of Trump’s supporters thought their candidate expressed civility during the election is telling. Indeed, nearly half of Trump voters (48 percent) surveyed agreed with the statement that “there is nothing wrong with a politician saying what is on their mind, no matter how uncivil,” compared to only 21 percent of Clinton voters who endorsed this statement.

There were a few silver linings. The vast majority of all Americans surveyed (86 percent) believe political incivility hurts the U.S.’s reputation, that uncivil comments made by political leaders encourage greater overall societal incivility (79 percent) and that incivility leads to less citizen political engagement (75 percent). Indeed, the study reported that incivility was cited as a factor among 59 percent of non-voters in their decision not to vote in the 2016 presidential election.

Nearly everyone polled (97 percent) also said they believe it’s important for U.S. presidents to behave in a civil manner, and 83 percent of Trump voters and 88 percent of Clinton voters agreed with the statement that the media is obligated to report when a public official is lying.

Research for the Civility in America study was conducted online by surveying a sample of 1,126 U.S. adults in December.