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This chapter proposes Ideological Enclavement Theory to explain how Red and Blue America emerged and what the consequences of living in these ideologically-segregated enclaves are. The Ideological Enclavement Theory hypothesizes that people have an intuitive understanding of the moral values of small socio-ecological areas, particularly by way of various cues in the social and physical environment. The findings lend support for Ideological Enclavement Theory's ideological migration hypothesis, suggesting that ideological fit affects migration tendencies, and that the relationship is driven by people's desire to satisfy their belonging needs. In the United States, people's own political ideology is an excellent predictor of their friends political ideology. Hetherington and Weiler (2009) examined this hypothesis by looking at how traditional, non-political behaviors in one's life space predict their political behaviors …