The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart
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| Rating | : | 4.94 (705 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1541457501 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 345 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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In The Big Sort, Bishop has taken his analysis to a new level. He begins with stories about how we live today and then draws on history, economics, and our changing political landscape to create one of the most compelling big-picture accounts of America in recent memory.. Over the past three decades, we have been choosing the neighborhood (and church and news show) compatible with our lifestyle and beliefs. How this came to be, and its dire implications for our country, is the subject of this groundbreaking work. 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. The result is a country that has become so polarized
"Very Good! An eye opening look into how America got so polarized" according to Sean G. The Big Sort, by Bill Bishop, is an ambitious and really interesting book that presents a compelling argument that there’s been a major re-sorting of the American populace over the past 50 years driven by social, economic, political and cultural forces. This great sorting-migration has resulted in a nation of clustered regions of like-minded citizens living in ever more idealized communities, both urban and exurban, right leaning and left.In 1965, we were a nation of 195,000,000 citizens, Democratics and Republicans. THE BIG SORT LEADS TO TRUMP This book was written just before the 2008 election so Bishop concentrates on the 200THE BIG SORT LEADS TO TRUMP The Curmudgeon This book was written just before the 2008 election so Bishop concentrates on the 2004 election. The point is that Americans are increasingly clustering in politically homogeneous neighborhoods, counties, and states. In 2004 half of the counties gave Bush or Kerry a landslide victory, defined as a twenty point victory. This has been a growing trend since 1976 when only a quarter of the counties had landslide victories. In a short afterword, Bishop confirms that the trend continued in 2008. There are now no more than about. election. The point is that Americans are increasingly clustering in politically homogeneous neighborhoods, counties, and states. In 200THE BIG SORT LEADS TO TRUMP The Curmudgeon This book was written just before the 2008 election so Bishop concentrates on the 2004 election. The point is that Americans are increasingly clustering in politically homogeneous neighborhoods, counties, and states. In 2004 half of the counties gave Bush or Kerry a landslide victory, defined as a twenty point victory. This has been a growing trend since 1976 when only a quarter of the counties had landslide victories. In a short afterword, Bishop confirms that the trend continued in 2008. There are now no more than about. half of the counties gave Bush or Kerry a landslide victory, defined as a twenty point victory. This has been a growing trend since 1976 when only a quarter of the counties had landslide victories. In a short afterword, Bishop confirms that the trend continued in 2008. There are now no more than about. The big sort that starts at home John L. Borden Now that Bill Clinton is using Bill Bishop's book "The Big Sort" as the basis for his current speeches, I should finally post a review. I read this book as soon as it was published and liked it, but not being one who regularly picks up social science books on political culture I procrastinated. Now it's time, and here are a few observations."The Big Sort" refers to the fact that lifestyle choices are leading like-minded folks to live together in communities where they feel comfortable and perhaps unchallenged. That has si
. Bishop's argument is meticulously researched—surveys and polls proliferate—and his reach is broad. Bishop contends that as Americans have moved over the past three decades, they have clustered in communities of sameness, among people with similar ways of life, beliefs, and in the end, politics. Bishop's portrait of our post materialistic society will probably generate chatter; the idea is catchy, but demonstrating that like does attract like becomes an exercise in redundancy. There are endless variations of this clustering—what Bishop dubs the Big Sort—as like-minded Americans self-segregate in states, cities—even neighborhoods. All