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And if everybody around you thinks like you do, then what prompted you to go to amazon to research this book before your friends got here. I'm surprised that others are shocked by the revelation that people like to live with and hang out with others who have similar values and interests. People (and every other mobile living thing on the planet) vote with their feet, always have, always will. It's a beautiful thing, enjoy it.
It is to find or make something or somebody or somewhere that for whatever reason pleases us more. Seems pretty simple. And what's the purpose of seeking or searching, researching, discovering, inventing, creating, etc, etc. In fact humans, as the most complex of living things, are designed to have the desire to seek alternatives because, surprise, environments change (that damn sun and those pesky earthquakes) and S happens, so we are forced to seek out alternatives.
Somebody you hate and who doesnt like anything you like. We are always seeking something. The entire concept of federalism is in response to this unavoidable fact. There is nobody exactly like you and most of us who didnt get our natural curiosity beat out of us look for things.
How is that gonna work. Who do you date. Well, duh.
They are coming out of a society that is more self-isolated and self-absorbed.4.What we think of what hear or see depends largely on who said it. A republican form took the view that the representative would act for the general benefit of the whole community.10.Homogeneous communities become self-propelling engines of partisanship.11.People's faith, culture, and politics have a lot to do where they live.12.The mass culture by media, organizations, and association brought about more segmentation and more homogeneousness.The Economies of the Big Sort:1.100 million American resettled across a county border in the 1990s. We are likely to find evidence that confirms our preconceptions.5.People find safety in groups. People with different levels of education sort themselves into cities. 1.Washington was, from its beginning, a politically segregated city.
The city's new product was lifestyle. People were moving to cities that cost more than wage advantage increase for lifestyle reasons. Cities had become entertainment machines. Like mind company polarizes.7.People are more committed to a position once they have voiced it.8.Isolation creates clashes of opinion.
Federalist believed the best antidote to factions was to see that communities weren't cut off from new and sometimes conflicting ideas, a constant mixing of opposing opinion.9.Should legislators mirror the interests/opinions of the people they represent. Congressmen lived, ate, and slept at boarding houses. Creative class workers were sorting themselves into the same cities: Washington, Raleigh-Durham, Seattle, San Francisco, and Austin. The migration patter set off segregation by income.5.People went to high-tech cities: Atlanta, Phoenix, Denver, Portland, Austin, Dallas, Raleigh-Durham, Seattle, Minneapolis, and Boise.6.Corporations began moving where pools of talent were deepening. The personage of adults with college degree increased for 17 percent in 1970 to 45 percent in 2004. In 2000, 45 percent of twenty-five to thirty four year olds had finished college in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina.4.The cities that grew the fastest and the richest were ones where people with college degrees congregated.
Few cities had a sizeable working class and a large creative class.8.People with skills and education were less likely to work for a business that hired employees without a college degree.9.Robert Solow argued that technical knowledge combined with labor and capital increased economic productivity.10.Paul Romer said lots of oil, deep ports, or fertile ground does not make a place rich. A large group of people migrated to Los Vegas.
This process of connecting and sharing ideas worked best when people involved in related kinds of work could meet face-to-face and share new ideas.15.People migrate to maximize their economic returns. The entertainment machines needed to attract people who would power their economies.
The places that grew wealthy were those whose people learned to arrange their ingredients in ever new and economical useful ways.11.Economies grew because people were constantly incorporating new ideas into all aspects of their work.12.City life was key for economies of ideas to flourish.13.A series of small innovations ca spawn entirely new industries.14.Cities were essential because they represented a social network of problem solving, discovery, and innovation. Members living in the same boarding house sat together on the same floor and voted similarly, sectional conclaves.2.Cultural segregation in early America was enforced by lack of mobility.3.Many political leaders reflect the political segregation of American communities.
7.Creatives are people who think for a living: manager, artists, writers, engineers, and teachers. Economies, lifestyle, and politics merged in the Big Sort.2.U.S economy, its culture, and its politics were changing town to town, city to city.3.People with College degrees moved to places where other people with degrees lived.
"We come to accept a wide array of positive outcomes with acceptance and love from others."6.Like-minded groups enforce conformity and tend to grow more extreme in the majority view. There was an order to the flow of movement.
The problem with moderation or moderates is that they simply do not want to draw out the logical conclusions of the principles on which they so confidently act. We can tolerate each other in public but why should we want anything more.
They thought this was a recipie for tyranny of the mob. The american founders did not want citizens deeply involved in deliberative or participatory democracy.
Why is this phenomenon bad. This Rodney King politics " can't we all just get along." is nonsense.
The best line about this matter ever was Barry Goldwater at the Republican National Convention in 1964 " Let me remind you that extremism in defense of liberty is no vice> Moderation in our pursuit of justice is no virtue" The idea that people live where they feel comfortable is as old as humanity and there is nothing wrong with it.
But truth is not pragmatism and pragmatism or moderation is simply an excuse for thought and conviction.
Either that or I have to pay extra to have it mailed up here. Humans have always wanted to associate with their own kind whether it is race, income level, age group, political or religious. The condition of the book was great. The book has an interesting perspective on the clustering of the population. Only time will tell what will happen to America. It arrived earlier than I expected. Living in Alaska usually means it takes things 10 days to 2 weeks to get here.
Well researched, competently written, this book explores the many different ways this affect us all. A fascinating book documenting how Americans are using their ability to move to "sort" themselves into homogeneous, same-thinking commmunities that rarely have to interact with others who think differently. But it is fascinating and thought-provoking in any case. On the negative side (only slightly) it seems like the material is stretched just a bit in order to make it book length. The key is that this is not done purposefully, but rather in the simple choices one has in finding a place to live that seems comfortable for them. The problems with this sorting is that these communities start to become echo chambers for their particular veiws, and that drives them to ever greater extremes, making discussion between different communities uncommon, and uncomfortable when it does have to occur.
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