More than any time in recent history, we are more likely to be living in a place where the majority of our neighbors think and vote the same way we do. According to the Statesman:
[Our] country [is] so out of balance, so politically divided that there is little competition in presidential contests between the parties in most U.S. counties, according to an Austin American-Statesman study of election returns since 1948.
I can only concur from my vantage point that our public discourse has transmogrified from a situation of cautious deténte to one of orgiastic screaming fits from political extremists whose own view is that it is their way or the highway. Click here for a user/pw for the site.
