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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... economics , and our changing politi- cal landscape to create one of the most compel- ling big picture accounts of America in recent memory . The Big Sort will draw comparisons to Rob- ert Putnam's Bowling Alone and Richard Florida's The ...
... economics , and our changing politi- cal landscape to create one of the most compel- ling big picture accounts of America in recent memory . The Big Sort will draw comparisons to Rob- ert Putnam's Bowling Alone and Richard Florida's The ...
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... Economics of the Big Sort : Culture and Growth in the 1990s 129 Part III : The Way We Live Today 7. Religion : The Missionary and the Megachurch 8. Advertising : Grace Slick , Tricia Nixon , and You 9. Lifestyle : " Books , Beer , Bikes ...
... Economics of the Big Sort : Culture and Growth in the 1990s 129 Part III : The Way We Live Today 7. Religion : The Missionary and the Megachurch 8. Advertising : Grace Slick , Tricia Nixon , and You 9. Lifestyle : " Books , Beer , Bikes ...
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... economies while others stagnate , and I had written about this question as a newspaper colum- nist in Kentucky and then a ... economic hard- ship and opportunity . The movements we saw from 1970 to 2000 were different . The flows were ...
... economies while others stagnate , and I had written about this question as a newspaper colum- nist in Kentucky and then a ... economic hard- ship and opportunity . The movements we saw from 1970 to 2000 were different . The flows were ...
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... economic growth.3 Joe Cortright was interested in the migration of the young . Terry Clark discovered the amenities that attracted high - wage workers . Bob Cushing and I used patents to measure economic innovation in cities . We ...
... economic growth.3 Joe Cortright was interested in the migration of the young . Terry Clark discovered the amenities that attracted high - wage workers . Bob Cushing and I used patents to measure economic innovation in cities . We ...
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... economic mobility freedoms seemed only to have increased segregation , not lessened it . Why ? These were the questions that led us to begin work on this book . We knew , however , that before we could address these larger subjects , we ...
... economic mobility freedoms seemed only to have increased segregation , not lessened it . Why ? These were the questions that led us to begin work on this book . We knew , however , that before we could address these larger subjects , we ...
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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