More on Political Behavior of Internal Migrants in the US

In my place early this week on the political implications of the census, one of the comments referenced a paper by that turns out to be written by Professor Jason A. MacDonald and William W. Franko. MacDonald was category sufficiency to send along a link to an ungated edition of the paper. The gated edition is available here. Here's the abstract:

We consider how land semipolitical environments crapper edit the band finding and semipolitical behavior of individuals. Using panel data well-suited to assess the influence of migration on individual-level phenomena, we encounter that migrants edit their band identifications toward the majority band of their new states. Applying the estimates from this analysis to the 2000 statesmanly election suggests that individual-level modify crapper edit statesmanly election outcomes in states if migration patterns foregather destined conditions.

Their findings seem to support the anxiety I raised with the assumption that Democrats from Boston module automatically behave the aforementioned artefact erst they advise to Arizona. However, another interpret on my example place by "consulscipio236" also raises another engrossing and countervailing implication of the cross-pressures argument:

This is a beatific point on interbreed pressure, but it entireness both ways. If a progressive family from metropolis moves to a standpat community in Arizona, they haw embellish somewhat inferior advocator and inferior liberal. On the other hand, the conservatives in their community whom they interact with would see that these perfectly respectable and commonsensible grouping are liberal, so these neighbors strength embellish inferior paritsan and inferior liberal. True the affect would be inferior on the grouping from Arizona than those from Cambridge, but migration of some metropolis families to some standpat regions of the land could somewhat dilute standpat strength overall.