Inadvertent and intentional partisan residential sorting

摘要: We present evidence for two mechanisms that can explain increasing geographic divide of partisan preferences. The first is “inadvertent sorting,” where people express a preference residential environments with features just happen to be correlated partisanship. second “intentional do consider partisanship directly. argue the accumulating political biases visible in many neighborhoods effect some mixture these mechanisms. Because relocation often involves practical constraints and neighborhood racial composition more important than partisanship, there less segregation across USA could based on alone.