“The vote last week was transformative in a sense. In many ways, however, the election produced no change at all,” writes journalist Bill Bishop, author of The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart. “The country is split in much the same way it was divided four and eight years ago. People continue to sort by age and by way of life. As a result, our communities (and states) are growing more like-minded….

“Liberals and Democrats seem to think the country’s divisions have disappeared just because their man won. And it is easy to ignore people on the other side when they aren’t your neighbors. But that doesn’t mean the country is less polarized—because it isn’t.”

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