Humanist Book Group

Join us in the Stong room as we discuss The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart by Bill Bishop. Newcomers are always welcome, as are new book suggestions.

We will be selecting the next book from those presented by members at the this meeting. If you' like to add a book to the running, come ready to make a short pitch for it at the meeting, and bring a copy if you can. For bonus points, check the book's availability in the SF Public Library.

About The Big Sort (https://www.amazon.com/Big-Sort-Clustering-Like-Minded-America/dp/B073D8FR6G):

In 2004, journalist Bill Bishop coined the term "the big sort". Armed with startling new demographic data, he made national news in a series of articles showing how Americans have been sorting themselves into alarmingly homogeneous communities - not by region or by state but by city and even neighborhood. Over the past three decades, we have been choosing the neighborhoods (and churches and news shows) compatible with our lifestyles and beliefs. The result is a country that has become so polarized, so ideologically inbred, that people don't know and can't understand those who live a few miles away. How this came to be, and its dire implications for our country, is the subject of this groundbreaking work. In The Big Sort, Bishop has taken his analysis to a new level. He begins with stories about how we live today and then draws on history, economics, and our changing political landscape to create one of the most compelling big-picture accounts of America in recent memory.

If you have not read the book, you're welcome to attend and learn what we're about. We only ask that you allow those who have done the reading to speak first.

We typically go to dinner together afterward at a nearby restaurant, for those who would like to stick around.