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Voting and Migration Patterns in the U.S. (Paperback)
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Voting and Migration Patterns in the U.S. (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Research in American Politics and Governance
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In recent years, political scientists and journalists have taken a
great interest in the question of whether the American electorate
is "sorting" into communities based on partisan affiliation. That
is, there is concern that American communities are becoming
increasingly politically homogenous and this is because Americans
are considering politics explicitly when determining where to live.
Academics have since debated the degree to which this is a real
phenomenon and, if it is, whether it has important normative
implications. However, little empirical research has examined which
factors turned some closely-contested counties into Republican
enclaves and others into Democratic strongholds. Examining
individual and aggregate data and employing a large number of
statistical methods, George Hawley explores the increasing
political homogenization of small geographic units and explains the
causal mechanisms driving this phenomenon as well as its
consequences for individual political attitudes and behavior among
residents residing in these geographic units. He argues that some
partisans are self-selecting into communities of likeminded
partisans, causing some areas to become overwhelmingly Republican
and others to become overwhelmingly Democratic. The book also notes
that the migratory patterns of Republicans and Democrats differ in
systematic ways for other reasons, due to the different demographic
and economic characteristics of these partisan groups. At a time
when many studies argue that a large percentage of the electorate
is self-selecting into communities based on their political
preferences, this bookshelf essential presents a much needed
account on the different migratory patterns of Republicans and
Democrats and how these patterns are shaping the geography of
American politics.
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