Our Patchwork Nation The Surprising Truth about the Real America

Name: Our Patchwork Nation The Surprising Truth about the Real America
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ISBN: 9781592406708

ISBN-10: 159240670X

ISBN-13: 9781592406708

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Authors: Dante Chinni, James Gimpel

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A provocative counterargument to the blue/red divide that illuminates our country's multidimensional political spectrum. In a climate of culture wars and economic uncertainty, the media have often reduced America to a simplistic schism between red and blue states. In response to that oversimplification, journalist Dante Chinni teamed up with political geographer James Gimpel, using on-the-ground reporting and statistical analysis to get past generalizations and probe American communities in depth. Looking at the data, they recognized that the country breaks into twelve distinct types of communities, whose differences and specific concerns shed light on the subtle distinctions in how…

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List price: $17.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/4/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Dante Chinni is a senior researcher for the Project for Excellence in Journalism and is a columnist for the Christian Science Monitor. He is a regular contributor to the Washington Post Magazine and has written for The Economist, the New York Times Magazine, Columbia Journalism Review, Salon and ESPN the Magazine among others.



Acknowledgments


Foreword



Introduction To The Paperback Edition


Introduction


Boom Towns: Eagle, Colorado


Campus And Careers: Ann Arbor, Michigan


Emptying Nests: Clermont, Florida


Evangelical Epicenters: Nixa, Missouri


Immigration Nation: El Mirage, Arizona


Industrial Metropolis: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania


Military Bastions: Hopkinsville, Kentucky


Minority Central: Baton Rouge, Louisiana


Monied Burbs: Los Alamos, New Mexico


Mormon Outposts: Burley, Idaho


Service Worker Centers: Lincoln City, Oregon


Tractor Country: Sioux Center, Iowa


The Economy


Politics


Culture


Conclusion


Appendix


Notes


Index