{"id":235845,"date":"2026-06-27T13:57:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T13:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=235845"},"modified":"2026-06-27T13:57:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T13:57:22","slug":"the-red-state-blue-state-divide-is-real-but-its-driven-by-more-than-just-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=235845","title":{"rendered":"The red state, blue state divide is real. But it&#8217;s driven by more than just politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recent research suggests there&#8217;s more going on with &#8220;ideological sorting&#8221; than simply moving to places that match one&#8217;s politics. It&#8217;s often one of many deciding factors, such as taxes or safety&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/06\/08\/nx-s1-5831305\/the-red-state-blue-state-divide-is-real-but-its-driven-by-more-than-just-politics\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent research suggests there&#8217;s more going on with &#8220;ideological sorting&#8221; than simply moving to places<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":235846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235845-the-red-state-blue-state-divide-is-real-but-its-driven-by-more-than-just-politics.jpg",1400,787,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235845-the-red-state-blue-state-divide-is-real-but-its-driven-by-more-than-just-politics-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235845-the-red-state-blue-state-divide-is-real-but-its-driven-by-more-than-just-politics-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235845-the-red-state-blue-state-divide-is-real-but-its-driven-by-more-than-just-politics-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235845-the-red-state-blue-state-divide-is-real-but-its-driven-by-more-than-just-politics-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235845-the-red-state-blue-state-divide-is-real-but-its-driven-by-more-than-just-politics.jpg",1400,787,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235845-the-red-state-blue-state-divide-is-real-but-its-driven-by-more-than-just-politics.jpg",1400,787,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235845-the-red-state-blue-state-divide-is-real-but-its-driven-by-more-than-just-politics-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235845-the-red-state-blue-state-divide-is-real-but-its-driven-by-more-than-just-politics-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235845-the-red-state-blue-state-divide-is-real-but-its-driven-by-more-than-just-politics-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=235845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/235846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=235845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=235845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=235845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}