Big Sort, The

Why the Clustering of Like-Minded American Is Tearing Us Apart

By: Bill Bishop

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Paperback | 21 August 2023

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The award-winning journalist reveals the untold story of why America is so culturally and politically divided in this groundbreaking book.

Armed with startling demographic data, Bill Bishop demonstrates how Americans have spent decades sorting themselves into alarmingly homogeneous communities—not by region or by state, but by city and neighborhood. With ever-increasing specificity, we choose the communities and media that are compatible with our lifestyles and beliefs. The result is a country that has become so ideologically inbred that people don't know and can't understand those who live just a few miles away.

In The Big Sort, Bishop explores how this phenomenon came to be, and its dire implications for our country. 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.

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"Essential reading for activists, poli-sci types, journalists and trend-watchers." Kirkus Reviews

"A timely, highly readable discussion of American neighborhoods and the implications of who lives in them." Library Journal

"A book posing hard questions across the political spectrum." Booklist, ALA, Boxed Review

"Bishop's argument is meticulously researched--surveys and polls proliferate--and his reach is broad." Publishers Weekly

"a gripping new book" - The Economist

"Jam-packed with fascinating data, "The Big Sort" presents a provocative portrait of the splintering of America." Boston Globe

"[a] rich and challenging book about the ways in which the citizens of this country have, in the past generation, rearranged themselves into discrete enclaves that have little to say to one another and little incentive to bother trying." The Wall Street Journal --

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Introduction	p. 1
The Power of Place
The Age of Political Segregation	p. 19
The Politics of Migration	p. 41
The Psychology of the Tribe	p. 58
The Silent Revolution
Culture Shift: The 1965 Unraveling	p. 81
The Beginning of Division: Beauty and Salvation in 1974	p. 105
The Economics of the Big Sort: Culture and Growth in the 1990s	p. 129
The Way We Live Today
Religion: The Missionary and the Megachurch	p. 159
Advertising: Grace Slick, Tricia Nixon, and You	p. 182
Lifestyle: "Books, Beer, Bikes, and Birkenstocks"	p. 196
The Politics of People Like Us
Choosing a Side	p. 221
The Big Sort Campaign	p. 249
To Marry Your Enemies	p. 276
Afterword	p. 305
Acknowledgments	p. 311
Notes	p. 314
Selected Bibliography	p. 341
Index	p. 354
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