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== Applications and forms ==

Partisan sorting is used as a potential explainer for how in recent decades the Democratic Party has become more liberal while the Republican Party has become more conservative.<ref name=":0" /> One school of thought led by [[Morris Fiorina]]<ref name=":1">{{Citation|last=McCarty|first=Nolan|title=What is Political Polarization?|date=2019-12-05|url=https://whateveryoneneedstoknow.com/view/10.1093/wentk/9780190867782.001.0001/isbn-9780190867782-book-part-2|work=Polarization|publisher=Oxford University Press|language=en|doi=10.1093/wentk/9780190867782.003.0002|isbn=978-0-19-086778-2|access-date=2022-01-26}}</ref> concludes most of the change comes from ideological partisan sorting, with polarization having little effect or being solely limited to the political elites.<ref name=":0" /><ref name="Polarized or Sorted? Just What’s Wrong With Our Politics, Anyway?">{{cite web|last1=Abramowitz|first1=Alan|last2=Fiorina|first2=Morris|title=Polarized or Sorted? Just What's Wrong With Our Politics, Anyway?|url=http://www.the-american-interest.com/2013/03/11/polarized-or-sorted-just-whats-wrong-with-our-politics-anyway/|website=The American Interest|accessdate=10 November 2016}}</ref> Conversely, another school of thought led by [[Alan Abramowitz]]<ref name=":1">{{Citation|last=McCarty|first=Nolan|title=What is Political Polarization?|date=2019-12-05|url=https://whateveryoneneedstoknow.com/view/10.1093/wentk/9780190867782.001.0001/isbn-9780190867782-book-part-2|work=Polarization|publisher=Oxford University Press|language=en|doi=10.1093/wentk/9780190867782.003.0002|isbn=978-0-19-086778-2|access-date=2022-01-26}}</ref> challenges this and says sorting itself is a reflection of political polarization and that both the elites and the public have become increasingly polarized.<ref name=":0" />

A form of partisan sorting is '''geographic sorting''', which alleges that people decide to move into communities that match their party.<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal|last1=Mummolo|first1=Jonathan|last2=Nall|first2=Clayton|date=2016-10-13|title=Why Partisans Do Not Sort: The Constraints on Political Segregation|journal=The Journal of Politics|volume=79|pages=45–59|doi=10.1086/687569|s2cid=9272199 |issn=0022-3816}}</ref> Research by political scientists in 2012 found that people prefer to relocate to areas with copartisans, though it was unsure if it was a central or secondary factor.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Tam Cho|first1=Wendy K.|last2=Gimpel|first2=James G.|last3=Hui|first3=Iris S.|date=2012|title=Voter Migration and the Geographic Sorting of the American Electorate|url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00045608.2012.720229|journal=Annals of the Association of American Geographers|language=en|volume=103|issue=4|pages=856–870|doi=10.1080/00045608.2012.720229|s2cid=34925586 |issn=0004-5608}}</ref> Research conducted in 2016 concluded that political compatibility is not a significant factor in deciding where to live.<ref name=":2" />