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What’s the difference between Moderate and Mainstream?

Answer

Moderate is generally somewhere in the middle of a range of possibilities. Mainstream is geo- specific to an area. For example, a mainstream position in an ultra-conservative town may be very different than a mainstream position elsewhere, and different still to the overall moderate position based on the range of possibility.