Spurred by the Supreme Court, a Nation Divides Along a Red-Blue Axis

As the political divide between the states turns into extra pronounced, what political scientists name “sorting” could speed up. The conservative Illinois billionaire Kenneth Griffin introduced final week that he had moved to Miami from Chicago, and would take Citadel, his hedge fund, with him. He informed his workers that Florida supplied a higher company atmosphere.

At the identical time, Ms. Caprara stated the Pritzker administration routinely boasts of the state’s welcoming political atmosphere, the place abortion rights are codified and firms won’t ever discover themselves in the place the Walt Disney Company now occupies in Florida — squeezed between a conservative authorities constraining homosexual and transgender rights, and liberal shoppers demanding a company pushback.

“Companies don’t want to have to deal with people boycotting their business, or struggling to get people to move to them, especially younger workers,” she stated.

Joanna Turner Bisgrove, 46, a household physicianat Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, had labored her complete skilled life in Oregon, Wis., a small city south of Madison, when her hospital was bought by a Catholic well being care chain, that started proscribing abortions and transgender care. After the Wisconsin Legislature took up the situation of transgender women in sports activities, she stated, her gender-fluid little one and the little one’s circle of pals grew to become magnets for bullying so dangerous that it made the native information.

Nearly a 12 months in the past, the Bisgroves lastly moved throughout the red-blue border, to Evanston, Ill., the place, Dr. Bisgrove stated, her youngsters could be accepted and her medical follow might thrive.

“In the end,” she stated, “my morals would not square with what I could do.”