Why Gun-Toting Conservatives Don't Drink Lattes With Liberal - Americans might be surprised to hear that too much prosperity can be a bad thing. But that's what journalist Bill Bishop says in his eye-opening book, ``The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart.''Able to pick up and move to be among more agreeable folks, we have become more extreme in our views and less compromising over the past 30 years. We head off two by two: latte-drinking liberals with Prius-driving liberals, church-going conservatives with gun-toting conservatives. People are hunkering down at the extreme edges of issues ranging from gay marriage to immigrant rights not because of nefarious politicians manipulating a gullible public but because of fundamental changes in how we live.
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