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2009.
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| Summary/Abstract |
The shifts in the social and demographic descriptions of the suburbs, the growing number of exurbs (commuter-towns with fairly high living standards) and more intensive southward migration are the main factors. The same can be said of the very apparent desire of people with similar social and economic statuses, life styles and political preferences live in neighborhood communities. In this way constituencies are growing politically polarized. Mutual influences inevitable in the uniform social milieus (that have practically no contacts with groups of different ideological and political preferences) push them to extremes far removed from the political middle-of-the-road. Under George W. Bush polarization grew noticeable to the extent that people joked that the Republican and Democratic states could function as independent countries.
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