“When people find themselves unable to control the world, they simply shrink the world to the size of their community” –Manuel Castells
DC may not be the best place to see this trend cause just about everybody has consistently leaned to the left, but this guy has some really interesting examples of the political polarization across the country and how it’s getting hard-coded into geography/place and even into the visual landscape.
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I feel like another piece to this is our selective media consumption and how the lack of common media outlets may reinforce this segregation trend.