{"id":35550,"date":"2012-11-08T02:35:54","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T02:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/michael_barone-two_americas_the_country_is_no_longer_culturally_cohesive\/"},"modified":"2012-11-08T02:35:54","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T02:35:54","slug":"michael_barone-two_americas_the_country_is_no_longer_culturally_cohesive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35550","title":{"rendered":"Michael Barone&#8211;Two Americas: The country is no longer culturally cohesive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re more affluent than we were in the 1950s (if you don\u2019t think so, try doing without your air conditioning, microwaves, smartphones, and Internet connections). And we have used this affluence to seal ourselves off in the America of our choosing while trying to ignore the other America.<\/p>\n<p>We tend to choose the America that is culturally congenial. Most people in the San Francisco Bay area wouldn\u2019t consider living in the Dallas\u201d\u201cFort Worth metroplex, even for much better money. Most metroplexers would never relocate to the Bay Area&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>One America tends to be traditionally religious, personally charitable, appreciative of entrepreneurs, and suspicious of government. The other tends to be secular or only mildly religious, less charitable, skeptical of business, and supportive of government as an instrument to advance liberal causes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/articles\/332753\/two-americas-michael-barone\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re more affluent than we were in the 1950s (if you don\u2019t think so, try doing without your air conditioning, microwaves, smartphones, and Internet connections). And we have used this affluence to seal ourselves off in the America of our<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35550\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,133,151,129,108,107,109,105,145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-history","category-politics-in-general","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","category-ruraltown-life","category-sociology","category-urbancity-life-and-issues","category-us-presidential-election-2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}