Bill Bishop, author of the Big Sort, will be the featured speaker at the WRC annual meeting June 4. Bishop’s book, published in 2008, authoritatively documented America’s shifting demographics.

Going far beyond the simplistic red state/blue state divide, journalist Bill Bishop (in collaboration with sociologist and statistician Robert Cushing) marshals original data and incisive reporting to show how Americans have sorted themselves geographically, economically, and politically into like-minded communities over the last three decades.

 Bill Bishop

The 2012 elections demonstrated that the trends identified by Bishop have accelerated. Stateline examines the electoral outcomes and finds a rise in one-party dominance in state government.

…the concentrations of power are a reflection of the way red states have become more reliably red, just as blue states have become more reliably blue.

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