In 2004, journalist Bill Bishop coined the term the big sort.
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..
In The Big Sort, Bishop has taken his analysis to a new level.
How this came to be, and its dire implications for our country, is the subject of this ground-breaking work.
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.
Over the past three decades, we have been choosing the neighborhood (and church and news show) compatible with our lifestyle and beliefs.
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.
In 2004, journalist Bill Bishop coined the term the big sort
