Notice that Dem primary voting in TX is much more predictable based on geography than GOP primary voting.
Racial demographics structure Dem primaries & Americans are geographically segregated by race, so...
This is something Gall Sigler & I wrote about in the paper flagged 👇.
Dan Hopkins
Curious about the role of ideology in primaries?
G Sigler & I published in @polbehavior.bsky.social using survey data & precinct-level results to examine the role of ideology in primary voting.
Ideology clearly shapes voting, but successful candidates build cross-bloc coalitions.
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