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Walk into a neighborhood in America today and you might find that your neighbors share more than just the same street address; they likely share your worldview, your habits, and your politics. This is the great sorting. It is not just a trend of moving to cities or suburbs, but a deep, structural shift where we have physically and socially separated into like-minded enclaves. We are moving beyond the traditional back-and-forth of political debate into a landscape of landslide counties where one party dominates so thoroughly that competitive elections are becoming a relic of the past. When you look at where people choose to live and how they choose to consume information, you realize we are not just disagreeing on policy anymore. We are inhabiting entirely different versions of reality. Our digital lives only accelerate this, with algorithmic curation trapping us in filter bubbles that confirm what we already believe while filtering out the friction of a different perspective

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