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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 6
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    QTing this to fork off a thread about why cities go blue as they grow. The replies to this tweet are interesting.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1324916790024048642 …

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    The geographic segregation of voting patterns is utterly remarkable. What is it about cities that makes people reliably Democrat past a critical size/density? And to what extent is coastal blueness explained by greater urbanization (almost entirely I suspect)
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      2. Joshua Shane‏ @elbowspeak Nov 6
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        I believe this is relevant to your interests https://www.niskanencenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Wilkinson-Density-Divide-Final.pdf …

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      3. Nathan Baschez‏Verified account @nbashaw Nov 6
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        Was just thinking of this — @willwilkinson’s work is great

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      1. mtraven‏ @mtraven Nov 6
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        Cities historically grow around trade, so are inherently multicultural. They grow by immigration, same consequence. Urban values are cosmopolitan and cities select for people with those kinds of values.

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      1. Sam Bhagwat‏ @calcsam Nov 6
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        - greater concentration of blue professions (tech, media, nonprofits, etc) - greater proportion of young people - greater proportion of non- white people

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      2. Matthew Alhonte‏ @MattAlhonte Nov 6
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        I think the denser the population, the more it makes sense to invest in public goods (or even the more necessary it becomes). You also have more contact with people in similar circumstances, which means more opportunities to compare notes, which probably spurs collective action.

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        Related-but-not-identical to the above https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selectorate_theory …

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      1. Tim Burkhard‏ @EqualEffrontery Nov 6
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        Judging from the movies... small town Midwest kid moves to the city to live that glam lifestyle. Realized parents are idiots and the city is virtuous.

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        Bear in mind the direction of causality: cities go cosmopolitan, blue chases cities, so blue goes cosmopolitan

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        Greater abstraction of function along with weaker community/family ties leads to greater reliance on institutions. Greater freedom, more entertainment options, and greater variety of perspectives ennoble openness and moral ambiguity. Jefferson saw such effects and hated cities.

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