Reading path
Does place matter
7 chapters in reading order. A path is a way through the book that follows one question; every chapter also stands alone.
- 1Party and place
Chapter 15.1 in Part XV, Place and opinion
Across 12 policy issues, Democrats and Republicans in the same kind of deep county differ by 43.1 points in the share taking the Democratic side, 7.6 times the 5.6-point difference between deep-blue and deep-red counties within a party.
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- 2Variation in opinion within places
Chapter 15.3 in Part XV, Place and opinion
How much of the variation in issue opinion lies between counties rather than within them?
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- 3Partisans in the other party's territory
Chapter 15.4 in Part XV, Place and opinion
Where do Democrats and Republicans live in counties their party lost, and do these voters and donors differ from aligned partisans?
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- 4Composition and behavior in county change
Chapter 15.5 in Part XV, Place and opinion
How much of county-level change since 2000 is composition and how much is behavior within groups?
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- 5Immigration and local context
Chapter 15.2 in Part XV, Place and opinion
Do immigration attitudes differ with the local foreign-born share?
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- 6Movers and opinion change
Chapter 15.6 in Part XV, Place and opinion
Do people who move to a different kind of county change their political views?
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- 7Cohort change in partisan sorting
Chapter 1.4 in Part I, The sort
Conservative Democrats and liberal Republicans fell from 19.6% to 6.3% of partisans who place themselves on the ideology scale from 1972 to 2024; the fall appears inside cohorts born 1927 to 1974, and how much of it is cohort replacement depends on assumptions the data cannot test.
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