11/27/2005
The red and the blue converge - ROGER MORRIS
It is a central point of the book, in fact, that the two warring, apparently irreconcilable sides have much more in common in interest and commitment to the civic life and process of the writhing U.S. democracy than an entirely separate, in many ways antagonistic national majority of hedonist, consumerist, politically disillusioned and/or disengaged white Americans who are the ultimate source of the country's divisions and its political and policy dysfunction.