Monday, October 28, 2013

Are neighborhoods and media usage polarized?

Possibly not. A political scientist challenges the idea - that I'm guilty of spreading - that people are sorting themselves into politically polarized neighborhoods, and limit themselves to ideologically narrow media sources.

Most precincts are composed of diverse groups:


(Graph by Eitan Hersh)

And self described partisans actually frequent news sources that are not ideologically polarized:

(Graph by Michael LaCour)