----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Pollak" <mpollak at panix.com>
[I wonder if there would be a way to map this in a way that would be striking and clear. Perhaps by county?]
Los Angeles Times
November 7, 2004
COMMENTARY
Hicks Nixed Slicks' Pick
By Sean Wilentz
Sean Wilentz is a professor of history at PrincetonUniversity.
[snip]
By perpetuating the easy impression of a nation divided into coastal
liberals and heartland conservatives, reporters and commentators are
misleading themselves and their audiences about the actual political
state of the Union. Without realizing it, they are also advancing the
picture of the nation advanced by the GOP culture warriors, feeding
the despair and paranoia of coastal liberals and writing off millions
of Americans in every part of the country.
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Ok but what does it mean to say there's an actual political state of the Union? Don't we have serious plurality of perspectives underdetermination/overdetermination problem[s]? Blast the problem of social kinds.