num_pages: 384
description: 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 happen by accident. Weve 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 dont know and cant 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.
language: English
title: The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt