{"id":34263,"date":"2021-03-10T15:30:59","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T15:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/psicologia\/estadounidenses-estan-segregados-que-incluso-viven-separados-estando-barrio"},"modified":"2021-03-10T15:30:59","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T15:30:59","slug":"los-estadounidenses-estan-tan-segregados-que-incluso-viven-separados-estando-en-el-mismo-barrio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/los-estadounidenses-estan-tan-segregados-que-incluso-viven-separados-estando-en-el-mismo-barrio\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans are so segregated that they even live apart in the same neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In a recently published study<\/a> in Nature Human Behavior<\/em>, have made use of the exact location of every registered voter in the United States to measure partisan segregation at both a large scale and a hyperlocal scale<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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The result is that a large portion of Democrats live in hypersegregation, with virtually no exposure to Republicans, in their residential environment. In other words: echo chambers not only take place on Twitter and other 2.0 environments<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Measurement with respect to one thousand nearest neighbors<\/h2>\n

To calculate partisan segregation, data containing information about each of the 180,735,645 voters<\/strong> registered in the United States as of June 2018. The data includes approximately 80% of the voting population, as well as the exact address of almost 75% of the adult population of the United States. <\/p>\n

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In the study, it was accurately measured the distance of each voter from his or her 1,000 nearest neighbors<\/strong>, something unprecedented until now because sociologists did not have such precise and individualized data, which has allowed the creation of a spatially weighted matrix of approximately 180,000,000,000 cells that takes into account the distance of each voter to their closest neighbors.<\/p>\n

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In this way, segregation can be measured at any arbitrary scale of geography.<\/p>\n

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Even Democrats and Republicans who live in the same neighborhoods they separate from each other<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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This classification was also observed in a variety of geographies and contexts<\/strong>, not only in very rural or very urban places:<\/p>\n

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But Why are Democrats and Republicans so segregated?<\/strong> That is the next question that should be addressed beyond this investigation. <\/p>\n

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However, one thing we can advance, in order to open the way towards fruitful hypotheses, is that there is not simply a reproduction of racial segregation<\/strong>: Taking racial segregation into account and isolating it, you still see a lot of partisan segregation beyond ethnicity or skin color.<\/p>\n