A review by paigemcloughlin
The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart by Bill Bishop

5.0

I read this shortly before the crash in 2008. It talks about the trend of more mobile Americans being free to choose their neighbors and lifestyle tend to flock to places with people like themselves. We are comfortable around people with similar interests and values. But here is the thing being surrounded by people only from your own SES or political orientation or lifestyle choices will warp your view of the world. It also in politics makes similar people egg each other on to more and more extreme positions and radical positions. This has been happening all over the us people are more in more homogeneous enclaves and this trend has balkanized the US and added to extreme polarization. I read it in 2008 but it is so much more obviously worse now.