Topic > The Culture War Myth of a Polarized America Summary

Economic indicators, unemployment and inflation rates, provide evidence of polarization (Jacobsen 17). Some factors, such as job approval and economic approval, cause supporters to go in different directions when it comes to their evaluations of the president (Jacobsen 21). Polarization is evident when Democrats and Republicans have different responses to the same information about what is happening in the economy. It's easy to distinguish between different preferences because Republicans care more about inflation than unemployment and polarization. Supporters have different answers, depending on which party controls the current presidency. In “The Big Sort: Migration, Community, and Politics in the United States of “Those People”, B. Bishop and R. Cushing, try to define and discuss the implications of the social and political disintegration that has engulfed America in recent two years. Their goal is to identify an event and interpret it for a certain type of people. Bishop isn't examining a new concept; the list of divisions he recites is familiar. The two main political parties have become more extremist and cannot find common ground