Big Sort Why the Clustering of Like-Minded American Is Tearing Us Apart

Name: Big Sort Why the Clustering of Like-Minded American Is Tearing Us Apart
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ISBN: 9780547237725

ISBN-10: 0547237723

ISBN-13: 9780547237725

Edition: 2009

Authors: Bill Bishop, Rick Bass

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In 2004, journalist Bill Bishop coined the term "the big sort." Armed with startling new demographic data, he made national news in a series of articles showing how Americans have been sorting themselves into alarmingly homogeneous communities -- not by region or by state, but by city and even neighborhood. Over the past three decades, we have been choosing the neighborhood (and church and news show) compatible with our lifestyle and beliefs. The result is a country that has become so polarized, so ideologically inbred that people don't know and can't understand those who live a few miles away. How this came to be, and its dire implications for our country, is the subject of this…

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List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Publication date: 5/11/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Rick Bass is the author of sixteen acclaimed books of fiction & nonfiction, including "Where the Sea Used to Be" & "The Sky, the Stars, the Wilderness".



Introduction



The Power of Place



The Age of Political Segregation



The Politics of Migration



The Psychology of the Tribe



The Silent Revolution



Culture Shift: The 1965 Unraveling



The Beginning of Division: Beauty and Salvation in 1974



The Economics of the Big Sort: Culture and Growth in the 1990s



The Way We Live Today



Religion: The Missionary and the Megachurch



Advertising: Grace Slick, Tricia Nixon, and You



Lifestyle: "Books, Beer, Bikes, and Birkenstocks"



The Politics of People Like Us



Choosing a Side



The Big Sort Campaign



To Marry Your Enemies


Afterword


Acknowledgments


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index