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Political Segregation of the Metropolis: Spatial Sorting by Partisan Voting in Metropolitan Minneapolis-St Paul

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CITY & COMMUNITY
Volume 12, Issue 1, Pages 35-55

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WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/cico.12003

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Recent electoral research has claimed that individuals in the United States are self-segregating along political lines. In this paper, I use the Twin Cities, Minnesota, metropolitan area as a case study to test for the presence of political segregation through statistical and spatial analyses of electoral data from 1992 to 2012. I find that while segregation by partisan voting at the individual level is comparatively low, it has increased during the study period, and there exists substantial spatial clustering in voting patterns at aggregate levels. These distinct electoral divides between central city and exurb suggest spatial sorting of the electorate in the metropolitan area. Segregacion Politica de la Ciudad: Aglomeracion Espacial por Voto Partidario en el area Metropolitana de Minneapolis-St Paul. (Kyle E. Walker) Resumen Estudios electorales recientes senalan que individuos en los Estados Unidos se auto-segregan dentro de lineas politicas. En este articulo uso el caso de Twin Cities, en la zona metropolitana Minnesota, para poner a prueba la hipotesis de la presencia de se-gregacion politica a traves de analisis espacial y estadistico de informacion electoral desde 1992 al 2012. Encuentro que mientras la segregacion por medio de voto partidario a nivel individual es comparativamente baja; esta ha aumentado durante el periodo de estudio; y que existe un aglomeramiento espacial sustantivo en los patrones de votacion a nivel agregado. Estas distintas brechas electorales entre la ciudad central y sus exurbios sugieren una organizacion espacial del electorado en el area metropolitana.

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