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Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart
Houghton Mifflin
May 2008
On Sale: May 7, 2008
384 pages
ISBN: 0618689354
EAN: 9780618689354
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Political
The untold story of why America is so culturally and
politically divided 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. This
social transformation didn't happed by accident. We've
built a country where we can all choose the neighborhood --
and religion 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, the journalist Bill Bishop, armed with original
and startling demographic data, made national news in a
series of articles showing how Americans have been sorting
themselves over the past three decades into alarmingly
homogeneous communities -- not by region or by red state
or blue state, but by city and even neighborhood. In The
Big Sort, Bishop deepens his analysis 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. The Big Sort will draw comparisons to Robert Putnam's
Bowling Alone and Richard Florida's The Rise of the
Creative Class and will redefine the way Americans think
about themselves for decades to come.
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