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Old 10-29-2015, 07:51 PM   #11
SteveEisenberg
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Originally Posted by rhadin View Post
I think much of the polarization in today's world has come about because those with different ideas are not "real" to us. We never meet them, we never socialize with them, we never get the opportunity to view the world through their eyes.
This convinced me that it is more about increasing geographical isolation than the Internet:

http://www.thebigsort.com/home.php

However, it could be that one is reinforcing the other. The same people who are moving to American neighborhoods where people are politically similar may be getting their news from partisan web sites or television networks.

Just to point out the obvious: Mobileread is the internet, and there is a ethic here to avoid turning issues into political left vs. right.
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