Stunning Figures! Are we moving to a geographical separation?

[Beet]

Its not just people moving into areas where people have similiar ideology--- there's also the potentiality that people who grow up in a certain area are socialized into politics in a certain way. For example one of my professors doesn't follow baseball because he grew up in North Dakota and there were not major league teams around there back then. It's the same way with politics. Usually, people have similiar politics as their parents. Children who grow up in con areas tend con, and those who grow up in dem areas tend dem. Regional partisanship was following through most of the mid-20th century and bottomed out in the 70s. Except for 1964 and the "solid south" (one way or the other), the parties from the 1930s-1970s generally were not extremely ideologically distinct. The same applies for the progressive period, 1900s-1910s. During this period partisanship generally fell off. Now we are seeing a return of the 19th century dynamic. This was a very bad dynamic for the Democrats, who were a permanent minority for most of the years 1856-1928, only somehow miraculously managed to win ultra-narrow victories once in a while.