历史的积淀.docVIP

生活费 第一周 第二周 第三周 第四周 合计 3月 210 210 210 400 1030 4月 210 210 210 400 1030 5月 210 210 210 400 1030 6月 210 140 140 300 790 7月 210 210 210 300 930 合计 1050 980 980 1800 4810 A revolutionary new way to understand Americas complex cultural and political landscape, with proof that local communities have a major impact on the nations behavior-in the voting booth and beyond. In a climate of culture wars and tremendous economic uncertainty, the media have often reduced America to a simplistic schism between red states and blue states. In response to that oversimplification, journalist Dante Chinni teamed up with political geographer James Gimpel to launch the Patchwork Nation project, using on-the-ground reporting and statistical analysis to get past generalizations and probe American communities in depth. The result is Our Patchwork Nation , a refreshing, sometimes startling, look at how Americas diversities often defy conventional wisdom. Looking at the data, they recognized that the country breaks into twelve distinct types of communities, and old categories like soccer mom and working class dont matter as much as we think. Instead, by examining Boom Towns, Evangelical Epicenters, Military Bastions, Service Worker Centers, Campus and Careers, Immigration Nation, Minority Central, Tractor Community, Mormon Outposts, Emptying Nests, Industrial Metropolises, and Monied Burbs, the authors demonstrate the subtle distinctions in how Americans vote, invest, shop, and otherwise behave, reflect what they experience on their local streets and in their daily lives. Our Patchwork Nation is a brilliant new way to debate and examine the issues that matter most to our communities, and to our nation. Dante Chinni and his co-author James Gimpel do not like the red states–blue states map that pops up every four years during a presidential election. They ask, How can a nation of 300 million people be reduced to a binary so crude that it doesnt even account