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To: energyplay who wrote (21118)	8/17/2004 11:53:54 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Respond to of 23153

Yes, computerized gerrymanding is a factor. How big of a factor, I am not sure. But the couple of reports I saw were actually about people who would physically relocate to towns or neighborhoods that had similar "values" to them. I think it was 60 minutes that had a program on this several weeks ago. You had people who'd relocate to some areas because of "old fashioned" values (church, honesty, etc) and then they showed other people who relocated to other areas because of "liberal" values (tollerance, understanding, etc). How wide spread this relocation trend is, I cannot tell. But it does seem logical that the more politics polarizes the nation, the more people will seek to be surrounded with opinions that confirms their own.