How we live

An interesting book/article on the homogenization of areas around the country. How people seem to be choosing where they live based on who thinks like them. The book takes a very strong stance on that perspective, while the article takes a less strong view.

I think the article is probably right about the general public. It's hard to know as one of the people who is quite ideological, to know how un-polarized the general public is. Assuming the polls he looks at are accurate then it does seem that only elites (or those who pay attention to politics more then a couple months out of four years) are polarized. Although I wonder given this polling data from the Economist (about the 6:40 mark), if that's true. Who knows?

I also don't agree with the article that sharing a nationality necessarily means that people share viewpoints. Why is it more likely that some one who comes from the same country shares the same viewpoint, as opposed to coming from the same academic, intellectual, etc. background/level?