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'''Partisan sorting''' or '''geographic sorting''' is an effect in politics in which voters with specific viewpoints migrate to specific areas, becoming much more concentrated in them than in the wider electorate.<ref name="Voter migration is a significant factor in the geographic sorting of the American electorate">{{cite web|last1=Tam Cho|first1=Wendy|title=Voter migration is a significant factor in the geographic sorting of the American electorate|url=http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2013/11/19/voter-migration-is-a-significant-factor-in-the-geographic-sorting-of-the-american-electorate/|publisher=[[London School of Economics]]|accessdate=10 November 2016}}</ref><ref name="LSE blog Partisan sorting is a very recent phenomenon, and has been driven by the Southern realignment.">{{cite web|last1=Lang|first1=Corey|last2=Pearson-Merkowitz|first2=Shanna|title=Partisan sorting is a very recent phenomenon, and has been driven by the Southern realignment.|url=http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2015/11/10/partisan-sorting-is-a-very-recent-phenomenon-and-has-been-driven-by-the-southern-realignment/|publisher=[[London School of Economics]]|accessdate=10 November 2016}}</ref><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’sWhat'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> This effect may create or contribute to an effect of [[Polarization (politics)|polarization]], in which separate areas become dominated by political movements much more extreme than might be expected given the "average" political views of voters.

In 2008, ''[[The Economist]]'' commented that in American politics sorting was making "the culture war more bitter and politics harder."<ref name="Economist The Big Sort">{{cite web|title=The Big Sort|url=http://www.economist.com/node/11581447|website=[[The Economist]]|accessdate=10 November 2016}}</ref>

A 2016 study finds no evidence that partisans move to more politically compatible communities.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Mummolo|first=Jonathan|last2=Nall|first2=Clayton|date=2016-10-13|title=Why Partisans Do Not Sort: The Constraints on Political Segregation|url=http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/687569|journal=The Journal of Politics|volume=79|pages=000–00045–59|doi=10.1086/687569|issn=0022-3816}}</ref>

==See also==