The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart

Bill Bishop

ISBN 10: 0618689354 / ISBN 13: 9780618689354

Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008

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Inhaltsangabe:

Drawing on intensive research and extensive demographic data, a noted journalist reveals how Americans have been sorting themselves into homogeneous communities over the past three decades, and analyzes the implications of this way-of-life segregation in terms of the cultural, political, and ideological divisiveness and polarization that exists in America today.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Bill Bishop was a reporter at the Austin American-Statesman when he began research on city growth and political polarization with sociologist and statistician Robert Cushing. Bishop has worked as a columnist for the Lexington Herald-Leader, and, with his wife, owned and operated The Bastrop County Times, a weekly newspaper in Smithville, Texas. He lives in Austin, Texas.

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Titel: The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of ...
Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
Einband: Hardcover
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