Re: The Big Sort: Americans increasingly forming like-minded clusters
If it is really such a big tendency, it just shows again and again that people cannot be homogenized by a common electoral system based on arithmetics.
People group by culture and by more deeper value, such as religious tenets, social values: in short, mankind is diverse and people tend to aggregate towards homogeneous groups.
America, like ex Yugoslavia or any empire o yore, tends to re-homogenize again: its melting pot is actually a crucible where similar substances tend to separate from agglomeration with other ones and aggregate into homogeneous blocks.
So we are back to the concept of nation as we have ever known in Europe:culturally homogeneous nations, homogeneous by ethnicity and religion, as well as by civic attitudes, folklore, in short, nations made by men sharing a similar weltanschauung.
The crazy experiment called Europe united and its craziest eurabian offspring will crumble as well back into nations, or it will be destroyed forever by brazilianization.
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