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I was hoping someone else would make this connection in the comments. What I see happening is a slow but steady demographic shift based on politics. I know my

I was hoping someone else would make this connection in the comments. What I see happening is a slow but steady demographic shift based on politics. I know my own recent move from Virginia to Arkansas was largely because of this, and statistics from the past few elections have been showing a decrease in the number of "swing" counties. Communities are becoming more politically homogenous. I wonder if this happened prior to the US Civil War, and if there were even enough data collected to accurately measure it.

dragonwriter 9y ago
> Communities are becoming more politically homogenous. I wonder if this happened prior to the US Civil War Not particularly; compared to today, US states, in national partisan terms, were more homogenous for most of the history of the nation; this got a bit shook up with the New Deal Coalition and further when the LBJ committed to civil rights and then Republicans targeted the Democrats disaffected segregationist base. Greater political homogeneity is just a reversion to historical norms after some mid-20th Century disruptions.