The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart

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

In The Big Sort, Bishop has taken his analysis to a new level. 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.

• The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution (The Simon & Schuster America Collection)
• Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
• Better Together: Restoring the American Community
• The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
• Political Behavior of the American Electorate
• The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker (Chicago Studies in American Politics)
• Networks of Outrage and Hope: Social Movements in the Internet Age
• Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity
• Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010
• The Great Alignment: Race, Party Transformation, and the Rise of Donald Trump