America’s cultural segregation fault lines

… We don’t live in America anymore. We live in thousands of Americas, many no farther away than our computer screens and the Internet. These are self-identified Americas. …

The fact that we have different interests, different perspectives, is certainly not new, nor is the fact that we band together, often through the Internet, with others who share our interests and values. What is new is that these many Americas that once cross-pollinated one another now exist in total isolation. Folks finally got the means to do what folks may have always wanted to do: Make the world cater to them. And the country is endangered because of it. CONT.

Neal Gabler, Reuters

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