It is well known that the racial composition of a neighborhood influences who chooses to live there. Less established is whether the political party mix of the neighborhood influences neighborhood choice. In this paper, we study racial and political neighborhood sorting, their interaction, and how they are changing over time. Our methodology involves the estimation of a conditional logit model with data on hundreds of thousands of homebuyers whose race and political affiliation are known. The neighborhood choices of homeowners categorized by race and party are explained by a typology that defines neighborhoods by their dominance of a particular party and race/ethnicity. We find that both Democrats and Republicans prefer living in a neighborhood that matches their race and political party, but both show an increased willingness to live in a non-matched neighborhood over the past decade. Our results are encouraging, suggesting that both political and racial/ethnicity neighborhood segregation may subside in the future.

众所周知，社区的种族构成会影响谁选择居住在那里。社区的政党组合是否会影响社区的选择还不太确定。在本文中，我们研究了种族和政治邻里分类、它们的相互作用以及它们如何随时间变化。我们的方法涉及使用数十万种族和政治派别已知的购房者的数据来估计条件 Logit 模型。按种族和政党分类的房主的社区选择是通过一种类型学来解释的，该类型学根据特定政党和种族/民族的主导地位来定义社区。我们发现，民主党人和共和党人都更喜欢生活在与其种族和政党相匹配的社区中，但在过去十年中，两人都表现出越来越愿意生活在不匹配的社区中。我们的结果令人鼓舞，表明政治和种族/民族社区隔离在未来可能会消退。