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Study, which surveyed 24,000 people who voted in 2006.
    23. Zachary Goldfarb, "How Many Wins Make Up a 'Wave'?"
Washington Post,
November 13, 2006; Rhodes Cook, "Democrats Made Gains in All Regions of the Country" (special to Pew Research Center, November 14, 2006).
    24. Alan Abramowitz, Brad Alexander, and Matthew Gunning, "Don't Blame Redistricting for Uncompetitive Elections,"
PS. Political Science and Politics
39 (January 2006): 88. Also available at http://www.centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/article/php?id=AIA2005052601 .
    25. Jeanne Cummings, "Redistricting: Home to Roost,"
Wall Street Journal,
November 10, 2006, p. A6.
    26. Abramowitz, Alexander, and Gunning, "Don't Blame Redistricting," p. 88.
    27. Bruce Oppenheimer, "Deep Red and Blue Congressional Districts," in
Congress Reconsidered,
ed. Lawrence C. Dodd and Bruce Oppenheimer, 8th ed., pp. 135–57 (Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Press, 2005).
    28. Bill Bradley, "A Party Inverted,"
New York Times,
March 30, 2005.
    29. Lewis H. Lapham, "Tentacles of Rage: The Republican Propaganda Mill, a Brief History,"
Harper's Magazine,
September 2004.
    30. Jerome Armstrong and Markos Moulitsas Zuniga,
Crashing the Gate: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of Peo-ple-Powered Politics
(White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green, 2006), pp. 26–27.
    31. Mark Schmitt, "The Legend of the Powell Memo,"
American Prospect,
April 27, 2005, http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?articleId= 9606 .
    32. John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge,
The Right Nation. Conservative Power in America
(New York: Penguin Press, 2004), pp. 77–78.
    33. Schmitt, "The Legend of the Powell Memo."
    34. James Piereson, "Investing in the Right Ideas,"
WSJ.com Opinion Journal,
May 27, 2005, http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110006723 .
    35. Schmitt, "The Legend of the Powell Memo."
    36. Abramowitz, Alexander, and Gunning, "Don't Blame Redistricting," p. 88.
    37. Oppenheimer, "Deep Red and Blue Congressional Districts," pp. 152–53.
    38. Gimpel was one of the first to see the growing geographic concentration of like-minded voters by community, writing about the phenomenon in James G. Gimpel and Jason E. Schuknecht,
Patchwork Nation. Sectionalism and Polttical Change in American Politics
(Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003).
    39. John H. Fenton,
Midwest Politics
(New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1966), pp. 150–52.
    40. Thomas Frank,
What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
(New York: Metropolitan Books, 2004).
    41. Mark Blumenthal, "State of the Union Reaction," Pollster.com , January 24, 2007, http://www.pollster.com/blogs/state_of_the_union_reaction.php .
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    2.
The Politics of Migration
    1. David Myers, e-mail to author, 2004.
    2. In this test, we simply measured the change in political segregation in the counties in each census region. We used the index of dissimilarity for this calculation.
    3. 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).
    4. There were 19 surveys in this database and more than 31,000 interviews.
    5. Scott Keeter of the Pew Research Center provided this analysis to the author. In one difference from Bob Cushing's analysis, Keeter slightly changed the dividing line for a strong partisan county. Instead of a io-point difference, Keeter designated "landslide" counties as those with 20-point margins. Just under half the voters in 2004 lived in one of these counties.
    6. Phillip Longman, "The Liberal Baby Bust,"
USA Today,
March 14, 2006; David Brooks, "The New Red-Diaper Babies,"
New York Times,
December 7, 2004; Joel Kotkin and William Frey, "Parent Trap,"
New Repuhlic,
December 2, 2004, http://www.joelkotkm.com/Politics/NR%20Parent_Trap.htm .
    7. Ronald Brownstein, "As Democrats Look West, Colorado Budges,"
Los Angeles Times,
September 28, 2006.
    8. Bob Cushing used county-to-county migration