Political Perils of a 'Big Sort'?

This is a subject that will submit very poorly to superficial analysis. Sort of like trying to completely describe DNA in one brief sentence.

It's not surprising that people like sameness. It's more comfortable. I think the polls are suspect though on questions like interracial dating. Maybe people have mellowed a bit in 20 years but I doubt 83% see nothing wrong with it.

About 20 years ago I met a co-worker at a Howard Johnson's restaurant in suburban NJ. She is black and I am white. We were friendly but definitely not dating, both alone there so I invited her to join me. I couldn't believe the amount of dirty stares that we got from people when they passed our table, at leat four. She was oblivious to it but it bothered me a lot. This small sample shows that this polling is suspect.

I think this explains why the "wrong track" polls keep getting higher and higher. The conservatives think the country is becoming too liberal and liberals think the country is becoming too conservative.

I see nothing wrong with self segregation. Many of us had tried "Diversity" in all it's aspects, i.e., racial, ethnic, etc. and realized that the experiment has failed. I forget who wrote the article or where I viewed it (perhaps on Drudge) that mixed race churches more often than any other, fail and explode. Too many thin skinned (no pun intended) people. So it's only normal to expect little garrison towns being set up of protestant, family raising, caucasian, dual income, college educated individuals that vote either red or blue. This is only an example, not meant to downplay other groups. As my real estate experience proves time and time again (40 years in the game), people what to walk out to the end of the driveway to get the paper and see someone just like them in the morning. It happens to all groups and it has various names..."White Flight" leaving urban areas and the new one "Gentrification". This seems to be a new negative term somehow...people moving into Gaza Srip-like areas of DC and actually taking care of properties, wanting safe streets, services, etc. Heaven forbid!! PC or not, we all want the same thing...to live with our own cultural background be it political or otherwise.

Which came first, the chicken or the egg? The rigging of congressional districts to reflect one or the other political parties has at the very least exaggerated the findings of this study. Do the authors take thisionto account?

Is it "Like mindedness" or is it being forced on us by class warfare being espoused by one candidate.......?

I suspect that if the counties with >20% for one candidate were also looked at by economic conditions or "college" town or not, then I would suspect a high relationship between economic conditions in those same counties and voting history would also exist..

In other words, the poor are more segregated than ever and college towns are almost islands residing in America with a very sheltered and inbred population.

Austin is one of those sheltered islands existing solely because of State funding and the existence of the university........