http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7629-2003Jun17.html
Anne Applebaum’s exerience: people are much more aware of, and respectful of, differences of (political) opinion in Washington than in New York. “… young people move nowadays not only to find interesting high-tech jobs but in order to live somewhere they find politically and culturally congenial. They look not only for neighborhoods with decent coffee bars, in other words, but for neighborhoods with appealing political attitudes. Increasingly, this country is segregated not by race or class but by politics.”