The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-minded America is Tearing Us ApartIn the tradition of The Affluent Society and Bowling Alone, a book that will redefine the way Americans think about themselves for decades to come. America may be more diverse than ever coast to coast, but the places where we live are becoming increasingly crowded with people who live, think, and vote as we do.We've built a country where we can all choose the neighborhood--and church and news show--most compatible with our lifestyle and beliefs. And we are living with the consequences of this way-of-life segregation. Our country has become so polarized, so ideologically inbred, that people don't know and can't understand those who live just a few miles away. The reason for this situation, and the dire implications for our country, is the subject of this groundbreaking work. In 2004, journalist Bill Bishop made national news in a series of articles when he coined the phrase the big sort. Armed with original and startling demographic data, he showed how Americans have been sorting themselves over the past three decades into alarmingly homogeneous communities--not at the regional level, or the red-state/bluestate level, but at the micro level of city and neighborhood. In The Big Sort, Bishop takes his analysis to a new level in a brilliantly reported book that makes its case from the ground up, starting with stories about how we live today, and then drawing on history, economics, and our changing political landscape to create one of the most compelling big-picture accounts of America in recent memory. |
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... civic organizations , and volun- teer groups . Social psychologists had studied like - minded groups and could predict how people living and worshiping in homogeneous groups would react : as people heard their beliefs reflected and ...
... civic organizations , and volun- teer groups . Social psychologists had studied like - minded groups and could predict how people living and worshiping in homogeneous groups would react : as people heard their beliefs reflected and ...
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... civic clubs , volunteer organizations , and , dramatically , political par- ties . People weren't simply moving . The whole society was changing . Prosperity had altered what people wanted out of life and what they ex- pected from their ...
... civic clubs , volunteer organizations , and , dramatically , political par- ties . People weren't simply moving . The whole society was changing . Prosperity had altered what people wanted out of life and what they ex- pected from their ...
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... civic institutions . And what we discovered was that all these features of contemporary life , this shift in the culture , was made manifest in the Big Sort — that is , in the nation's geography , in the places people were living . The ...
... civic institutions . And what we discovered was that all these features of contemporary life , this shift in the culture , was made manifest in the Big Sort — that is , in the nation's geography , in the places people were living . The ...
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Contents
The Age of Political Segregation | 19 |
The Politics of Migration | 41 |
The Psychology of the Tribe | 58 |
The Silent Revolution | 79 |
Culture Shift The 1965 Unraveling | 81 |
The Beginning of Division Beauty and Salvation in 1974 | 105 |
The Economics of the Big Sort Culture and Growth in the 1990s | 129 |
The Way We Live Today | 157 |
Lifestyle Books Beer Bikes and Birkenstocks | 196 |
The Politics of People Like Us | 219 |
Choosing a Side | 221 |
The Big Sort Campaign | 249 |
To Marry Your Enemies | 276 |
Acknowledgments | 307 |
Notes | 310 |
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Other editions - View all
The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart Bill Bishop Limited preview - 2009 |
The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-minded America is Tearing Us Apart Bill Bishop,Robert G. Cushing No preview available - 2008 |
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