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04/24/2008: "People gravitate towards similar people to themselves"

The more diverse America becomes, the more homogeneous it becomes.

No, that's not a misprint; it is the thesis of "The Big Sort," Bill Bishop's 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. "As Americans have moved over the past three decades," Mr. Bishop proclaims, "they have clustered in communities of sameness, among people with similar ways of life, beliefs and in the end, politics."

[ This is a natural phenomenon that drives speciation. America is rather a centrifuge than a melting pot, despite desturbing levels of miscegenation. ]

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