the author's theory is that americans are sorting themselves into ever increasingly homogenous groups so that most people live in a sort of echo chamber that reinforces their own political and religious beliefs and can not comprehend that there is a vast scope of others who genuinely believe diff...
This book was truly fascinating. The premise itself is simple - Americans are sorting themselves into like minded groups, often referred to by the author as "people like us". This sorting results in a lack of debate and causes a feedback loop which re-enforces beliefs and leads to polarization....
THE AGE OF POLITICAL SEGREGATION You don't know me, but you don't like me. —HOMER JOY, "Streets of Bakersfield" How can the polls be neck and neck when I don't know one Bush supporter? —ARTHUR MILLER IN THE SPRING before the 2004 election, I heard from LaHonda Jo Morgan. Jo Morgan lived in Wa...