The great divide

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Explains why America is so bitterly divided and how it is really two countries whose people, with different economic interests, think and vote differently. It explains why Congress gave the lions share of anti-terrorism funds to small states with low probability of terrorist attack "while California, Florida, Illinois, New York, and Texaswith dense high-rise cities, mammoth seaports and airports, and nuclear generating plantsproportionally receive the least." It explains how to stop sending jobs overseas and why political power is in the hands of Republicans who pander to a predominantly white, fundamentalist Christian constituency while sending massive subsidies to campaign contributorsoil, gas, coal, logging, and farm corporations. A call to action for change, the book offers a detailed blueprint for reconstructing America the way our Founding Fathers imagined it could be.