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McDonald, Ian. "Voters Like Me: Domestic Migration and Proximity to Shared Ideology" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL, Aug 30, 2007 <Not Available>. 2011-06-08 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p210466_index.html>

McDonald, I. , 2007-08-30 "Voters Like Me: Domestic Migration and Proximity to Shared Ideology" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2011-06-08 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p210466_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: Is domestic migration a contributing factor in the rise of party polarization at the national level in U.S. politics? Potentially, migration could be powerful enough to reconstitute significant portions of the overall electorate. At the same time, the effects of migration may offset each other, and its magnitude in any given year, and in comparison to postwar years, can seem surprisingly small. In this study, I examine microdata samples from the 2000 U.S. Census and the 2000 National Election Survey, and apply three tests to see if the results are consistent with the thesis that migration tended to homogenize preferences within U.S. congressional districts during the 1990’s. If this thesis holds, migration during this time sorted preferences geographically, rather than dispersing them, and led to more homogeneous constituencies more likely to be dominated by one ideological pole. Specifically, I find a positive and monotonic relationship between growths of congressional districts and support for George Bush in the 2000 presidential election and higher DW-NOMINATE first dimension scores. However, each dataset and the tests applied are constrained by the lack of complete individual level data describing migration and its political consequences.

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