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weighted for the population of the county. The weighted standard deviation of the vote increased by 49 percent between 1976 and 2004.
    7. For example, when we first began studying local election results, no academic institution kept county-by-county voting records for U.S. presidential elections. We found the results on a wonderful website ( www.uselectionatlas.org ) maintained by Dave Leip, who began collecting election data as a hobby while he was a graduate student in engineering at MIT.
    8. Gimpel and Schuknecht,
Patchwork Nation;
James G. Gimpel.
Separate Destinations: Migration, Immigration, and the Politics of Places
(Ann Arbor. University of Michigan Press, 1999).
    9. J. Walker Smith, Ann Clurman, and Craig Wood,
Coming to Concurrence: Addressable Attitudes and the New Model for Marketing Productivity
(Evanston, IL: Racom Communications, 2005), p. 83.
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The Age of Political Segregation
    1. "Political Opinions Take a Violent Turn in Florida,"
Seattle Times,
October 29, 2004, p. A8.
    2. Akilah Johnson, "Police: Man Beats Woman About Vote,"
South Florida Sun-Sentinel,
October 28, 2004, p. B5.
    3. Lee Mueller, "Quarrel Between Friends Ends in Shooting in Floyd,"
Lexington (KY) Herald-Leader,
August 6, 2005, p. A1.
    4. Claire Taylor, "Vandals Target Democrats' Office for Second Time,"
Lafayette (LA) Daily Advertiser,
September 17, 2004.
    5.
Huntsville (AL) Times,
November 2, 2004.
    6. Bill Bishop, "The Incredible Shrinking Middle Ground,"
Austin American-Statesman,
August 29, 2004, p. A1.
    7. Rick Lyman, "In Exurbs, Life Framed by Hours Spent in the Car,"
New York Times,
December 18, 2006, p. 29.
    8. "Political Parties and Partisanship: A Look at the American Electorate" (briefing, Brookings Institution/Princeton University, September 17, 2004), p. 17.
    9. See Nolan McCarty, Keith T. Poole, and Howard Rosenthal,
Polarized America: The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches
(Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006); see also Poole's website, www.voteview.com .
    10. Alan Abramowitz, "Redistricting, Competition, and the Rise of Polarization in the U.S. House of Representatives" (paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 3, 2006).
    11. Dana Milbank and David Broder, "Hopes for Civility in Washington Are Dashed,"
Washington Post,
January 18, 2004, p. A1.
    12. Hamilton College political scientist Philip Klinkner has argued that today's segregation is, in the long stretch of things, nothing unusual. See his article "Red and Blue Scare: The Continuing Diversity of the American Political Landscape,"
Forum
2, no. 2 (2004). See also Edward Glaeser and Bryce Ward, "Myths and Realities of American Political Geography" (Harvard Institute of Economic Research Discussion Paper 2100, January 2006).
    13. Morris P. Fiorina, with Samuel J. Abrams and Jeremy C. Pope,
Culture War? The Myth of a Polarized America,
2d ed. (New York: Pearson Longman, 2006), pp. xiii–xiv.
    14. Ibid., pp. 21–22.
    15. Morris P. Fiorina, with Samuel J. Abrams and Jeremy C. Pope,
Culture War? The Myth of a Polarized America
(New York: Pearson Longman, 2005), p. 5.
    16. Jonathan Rauch, "Bipolar Disorder,"
Atlantic,
January/February 2005, p. 102–10.
    17. Joe Klein, "America Divided? It's Only the Blabocrats,"
Time,
August 8, 2004, http://www.time.com/time/election2004/columnist/klein/article/0,18471,678593,00.html .
    18. Robert Kuttner, "Red vs. Blue? Not True,"
Boston Globe,
August 10, 2005, P. A15.
    19. William Beaman, "A Fractured America?"
Reader's Digest,
November 2005.
    20. E. J. Dionne Jr., "Why the Culture War Is the Wrong War,"
Atlantic,
January/ February 2006, p. 131.
    21. Alan I. Abramowitz and Kyle L. Sanders, "Is Polarization a Myth?" (paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, January 5, 2006).
    22. Alan Abramowitz and Bill Bishop, "The Myth of the Middle,"
Washington Post,
March 1, 2007, p. A17. The data come from the Cooperative Congressional Election