> What is the appeal of this guy? I think his stuff is
> really shallow.
This piece of his in The Atlantic was pretty good. http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2001/12/brooks.htm
The Atlantic Monthly | December 2001 One Nation, Slightly Divisible
The electoral map of the 2000 presidential race became famous: big blocks
of red (denoting states that went for Bush) stretched across the heartland,
with brackets of blue (denoting states for Gore) along the coasts. Our Blue
America correspondent has ventured repeatedly into Red territory. He asks
the question—after September 11, a pressing one—Do our differences
effectively split us into two nations, or are they just cracks in a still-
united whole?
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> From the archives:
"America's Forgotten Majority" (June 2000) Forget the "soccer mom." The new white working class is the key to twenty- first-century politics, but neither party has found a way to mobilize it effectively. By Joel Rogers and Ruy Teixeira
Politics & Prose: "Joe Sixpack's Revenge" (May 17, 2000) The Republicans are the party of the rich and the Democrats of the working class, right? It's time to rethink that assumption. By Christopher Caldwell
-- Michael Pugliese