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By Bill Bishop

In 2004, journalist invoice Bishop coined the time period "the great sort." Armed with startling new demographic information, he made nationwide information in a chain of articles exhibiting how american citizens were sorting themselves into alarmingly homogeneous groups -- no longer by way of area or by way of country, yet via urban or even local. over the last 3 a long time, we have now been settling on the local (and church and information convey) suitable with our way of life and ideology. the result's a rustic that has turn into so polarized, so ideologically inbred that folks do not know and cannot comprehend those that stay a number of miles away. How this got here to be, and its dire implications for our kingdom, is the topic of this ground-breaking paintings.

In the massive style, Bishop has taken his research to a brand new point. He starts with tales approximately how we are living at the present time after which attracts on background, economics and our altering political panorama to create the most compelling big-picture money owed of the United States in contemporary memory.

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