The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded American is Tearing Us Apart

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This is essential reading for those who want to understand where the rubber meets the road in american politics at the grassroots level. The book is more a collection of religious history, sociological studies, and psychology/behavioral economics expe... Read More

The big sort, by bill bishop, is an ambitious and really interesting book. Bishop argues that there's been a major re-sorting of the american populace. Like-minded folks live together in communities where they feel comfortable and perhaps unchallenged... Read More

It's fascinating and explains the polarization taking place at the community level that translates into rigidness and extreme stands on both sides at the national level. Every citizen should be able to express his or her opinion without being * for it... Read More

Cons

The author describes his fear and loathing of what homogeneous conservatism becomes. Perhaps projecting on the authors' own choices to live in liberal locales filled with like-minded elitists, it is no wonder bill clinton was such a fan of this book.

The lefthand side of the spectrum might benefit from more curious and respectful attention to conservative views, says the author. And how many americans are in that category? And they are not small enough to be carried by their universities.

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Quality

In addition to making a strong case for its premise that americans are segregating by life style and thus making political divi... Read More

This funding seems to align with the extremes ofleft and right and since issues are clustered financial support for one issue o... Read More

And with respect to growing income and wealth inequality weare likely to get no help from our government

Im concerned with the increasing divisions between left and right america this book seems at least to be hitting on some of my concerns

Packaging/appearance

He shows how gw bush exploited this psychographic finding in his 2004 reelection campaign when his chief strategist matt dowd d... Read More

Competitiveness

Liberal districts have a high cost of living in general

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This product had a total of 248 reviews as of our last analysis date on Aug 30 2022.