The Big Sort by Bill Bishop
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. Over the past three decades, we have been choosing the neighborhood (and church and news show) compatible with our lifestyle and beliefs. The result is a country that has become so polarized, so ideologically inbred that people don't know and can't understand those who live a few miles away. How this came to be, and its dire implications for our country, is the subject of this ground-breaking work. 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.BILL BISHOP was a reporter for the Austin American-Statesman when he began working with sociologist and statistician Robert Cushing on a study of city expansion and political polarization. Bishop worked as a columnist for the Lexington Herald-Leader and co-owned and operated the Bastrop County Times in Smithville, Texas, with his wife. He is based in Austin.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780618689354 |
| ISBN 10 | 0618689354 |
| Title | The Big Sort |
| Author | Bill Bishop |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin |
| Year published | 2008-05-01 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
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