"Not so far beneath the surface, I think, we are becoming more, not less, alike.
I don't mean to exaggerate here, to suggest that pollsters are wrong and that our differences--racial, religious, regional, or economic--are somehow trivial, [but] facile expectations and simple explanations are being constantly upended. Spend time actually talking to Americans, and you discover that most evangelicals are more tolerant than the media would have us believe, most secularists more spiritual. Most rich people want the poor to succeed, and most of the poor are both more self-critical and hold higher aspiration than the popular culture allows. Most Republican strongholds are 40 percent Democrat, and vice versa. The political labels of liberal and conservative rarely track people's personal attributes."
Guesses, anybody? And what makes you guess the way you do?
2007-07-07
11:37:01
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