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Author	Bishop, Bill, 1953-
Title	The big sort : why the clustering of like-minded America is tearing us apart / Bill Bishop ; with Robert G. Cushing.
Publication Info.	Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2008.

Location	Call No.	Status
Stack 3	305.5 B	IN LIBRARY

Description	viii, 370 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-349) and index.
Contents	The age of political segregation -- The politics of migration -- The psychology of the tribe -- Culture shift : the 1965 unraveling -- The beginning of division : beauty and salvation in 1974 -- The economics of the big sort : culture and growth in the 1990s -- Religion : the missionary and the megachurch -- Advertising : Grace Slick, Tricia Nixon, and you -- Lifestyle : "books, beer, bikes, and Birkenstocks" -- Choosing a side -- The big sort campaign -- To marry your enemies.
Subject	Minorities -- United States.
	Political culture -- United States.
	Group identity -- Political aspects -- United States.
	Segregation -- Political aspects -- United States.
	Regionalism -- Political aspects -- United States.
	Polarization (Social sciences)
	Social conflict -- United States.
	United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-
	United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-
Added Author	Cushing, Robert G.
Added Title	Why the clustering of like-minded America is tearing us apart
ISBN	9780618689354
	0618689354

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