[lbo-talk] My thoughts on Tom Frank's article in Harper's

[Michael Pugliese]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/vote2000/cbc/map.htm
Red vs. Blue by county.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/vote2000/pres08.htm
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2001/12/brooks.htm
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?

 
by David Brooks 

 
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Michael Pugliese